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FIRST  BULLETIN 

of 

The  Cincinnati  District 
Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade 


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Report  of  the  Jasper  Conference 

and 

Guide  Book  for  Local  Units 


CONTENTS: 

Resolutions  Adopted .  9 

Institutions  represented ....  10 
Register  of  the  Convention. .  11 
Papers  of  the  Convention.  . .  12 
Mission  Work  of  the  Unit.  .  21 
Instructions  for  the  Units..  29 

Address  all  communications  to: 

The  Rev.  J.  Paschal  Hayden,  District  Manager 
Holy  Cross  Church, 

Loretto,  Ky. 


Foreword  . 

Letters  of  Approval . 

Summary  of  Convention.  . . , 

General  Constitution . 

Constitution  of  the  Cincin 
nati  District . 


Imprimatur: 


Jan,  12,  1920. 


^  Joseph, 

Bishop  of  Indianapolis, 


FOREWORD. 


This  Bulletin  contains  the  official  report  of  the  First 
District  Convention  of  the  Catholic  Students'  Mission  Crusade, 
which  was  held  at  Jasper  College,  Jasper,  Indiana,  July  8,  9, 
10,  1919.  Its  purpose  is  to  give  a  brief  summary  of  the  ques¬ 
tions  considered,  the  organization  effected  and  the  work 
planned  and  initiated  at  that  convention.  It  also  contains 
suggestions  for  crusade  activities  with  explanations  and  direc¬ 
tions  to  guide  the  various  Units  in  their  relationship,  and 
cooperation  with  one  another  and  with  the  District  Organi¬ 
zation. 

The  Bulletin  has  yielded  everything  to  brevity  that  clear¬ 
ness  will  allow.  In  reporting  on  the  Conference  and  the  many 
excellent  and  inspiring  papers  read  in  its  sessions,  the  editor 
has  keenly  felt  the  exigency  that  dictated  the  plan  adopted 
of  giving  them  only  in  short  reviews.  But  the  objective  now 
is  Do,  The  ardent  exhortation  must  give  place  now  to  the 
clarion  call  of  duty.  The  Crusade  is  on;  the  District  of  Cin¬ 
cinnati  is  organized  and  we  must  get  to  work. 

We  shall  omit  the  usual  prefacial  Apology  except  to  ex¬ 
plain  that  the  lateness  of  the  Bulletin  is  meant  to  find  its 
student  readers  sufficiently  over  the  excitement  of  school's  re¬ 
opening  to  give  it  a  proper  reception.  As  the  voice  of  a  move¬ 
ment  that  aims  to  arouse  the  mission  spirit  among  Catholics, 
to  change  their  indifference  into  an  earnest  and  primitive  zeal 
for  the  spread  of  their  Holy  Religion,  the  casual  reader  will 
find  more  in  its  pages,  more  import  and  significance  than  lie 
in  their  art  or  the  quality  of  their  composition.  It  is  a  labor 
of  love;  it  is  the  editor's  own  little  contribution  of  sacrifice, 
gladly  given  amid  the  labors  and  cares  of  his  pastorial  duties, 
to  a  Cause  that  began  with  sacrifice,  is  continued  with  sacri¬ 
fice  and  is  abundantly  deserving  of  all  the  blood  and  sweat 
and  life  that  can  be  poured  into  it. 


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The  Jasper  Conference. 

Letters  of  Approval. 

Archbishop’s  Residence,  Norwood,  Ohio. 

V  "  IV 

Rev.  Frederick  A.  Reinwand, 

St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Rev.  dear  Father:  i 

The  effort  to  awaken  and  stimulate  among  the  students  attending 
Seminaries,  Colleges  and  Academies,  an  interest  in  the  important  work 
of  saving  sOuls  is  indeed  most  praiseworthy  and  deserves  energetic  en¬ 
couragement.  Every  Catholic  who  loves  his  faith  and  appreciates  its 
real  and  manifold  blessings,  will  cheerfully  and  generously  help  by 
every  means  in  his  power  to  extend '  it.  How  great  endeavors  are  not 
made  by  non-Catholics  to  propagate  the  tenets  of  their  religion.  Will 
we  who  have  the  true  faith  suffer  ourselves  to  be  outdone  in  our  efforts 
to  extend  it  by  the  endeavors  of  non-Catholics  in  behalf  of  their  religious 
opinions?  To  permit  this  would  be  indeed  a  crying  shame  and  a  dire 
disgrace. 

I  most  heartily,  therefore,  endorse  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission 
Crusade,  whose  object  is  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  home  and 
foreign  missions;  and  I  fervently  pray  that  He,  from  Whom  every  good 
and  perfect  gift  comes,  may  bless  it. 

I  trust  that  as  many  of  the  Catholic  Students  of  the  Archdiocese  of 
Cincinnati  as  possible  will  attend  the  meeting  of  the  First  Provincial 
Conference  of  the  Province  of  Cincinnati  which  is  to  convene  at  Jasper 
College,  Jasper,  Ind.,  July  8th  to  the  11th,  1919.  i 

Sincerely  yours  in  Christ, 

-  Henry  Moeller, 

Archbishop  of  Cincinnati. 

Bishop’s  House,  Islington  St.,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Frederick  A.  Reinwand,  President, 

St.  Meinrad  Seminary  Unit,  C.  S.  M.  C., 

St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Dear  Sir : 

I  am  pleased  to  learn  of  the  splendid  progress  of  the  Catholic 
Students’  Mission  Crusade.  In  view  of  the  present  sad  condition  of 
the  missionary  field  owing  to  the  devastating  war,  a  Society  of  this 
kind  is  indeed  deserving  of  every  encouragement.  This  work  meets  with 
my  most  hearty  approval,  and  I  bless  it  with  all  my  heart. 

Sincerely  yours  in  Christ, 

Joseph  Schrembs, 

Bishop  of  Toledo. 

Catholic  University  of  America, 

Washington,  D.  C.  , 

Mr.  Frank  A.  Thill, 

Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary, 

Mt.  Washington,  Cincinnati,  O. 

My  dear  Mr.  Thill: 

I  am  a  firm  believer  in  the  timeliness  of  this  holy  work,  and  I  shall 
do  all  in  my  power  to  help  it  to  the  success  which  it  so  well  deserves. 


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The  spread  of  God’s  holy  kingdom  ought  to  be  the  daily  concern  of 
,every  good  Catholic  layman  or  priest,  and  he  is  bound,  therefore,  to 
take  an  active  interest  in  every  movement  that  promises  to  help  along 
in  any  measure  this  primary  obligation.  I  feel  confident  that  with  the 
cessation  of  war  conditions,  the  Crusade  will  find  a  more  favorable 
reception  in  all  our  colleges  and  academies. .  This  is  very  holy  work, 
capable  of  the  greatest,  happiest  development,  and  I  beg  all  the  members 
present  on  this  occasion  to  nourish  constantly  the  spirit  of  faith,  hope 
and  charity  in  which  they  first  entered  upon  the  work.  Every  great 
missionary  enterprise  in  the  world  has  had  a  most  modest  beginning, 
and  not  a  few  difficulties  to  contend  with,  but  once  its  spirit  was  under¬ 
stood  and  its  possibilities  grasped,  the  Catholic  people  have  come  to 
its  aid  in  great  numbers  and  with  great  generosity. 

With  kindest  greeting  to  all  the  members  of  the  Conference  and 
with  best  wishes  for  yourself,  I  remain. 

Very  sincerely  yours  in  Xto., 

Thomas  J.  Shahan, 

Rector. 


Bishop’s  House,  Diocese  of  Fort  Wayne, 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

I  implore  upon  St.  Meinrad  Seminary  Unit  of  the  Catholic  Students’ 
Mission  Crusade,  God’s  Choicest  Blessing  to  promote  the  interests  of 
the  home  and  foreign  missions,  and  to  secure  to  this  end  the  support 
of  the  Catholic  Laity. 

H.  J.  Alerding, 

Bishop  of  Fort  Wayne. 


Bishop’s  House,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Dear  Father  Richard: 

In  answer  to  the  letter  signed  by  you  and  the  Reverend  Frederick 
Reinwand,  permit  me  to  say  that  I  send  my  cordial  approbation  and 
blessing  to  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade  Convention,  to  be 
held  in  Jasper. 

God  bless  you. 

Joseph  Chartrand, 

Bishop  of  Indianapolis. 


Summary  of  the  Convention. 

The  Jasper  Convention  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade 
came  about  thru  a  contingency  foreseen  by  the  first  Conference  of  the 
Crusade  held  at  the  St.  Mary’s  Mission  House,  Techny  Ill.,  July,  1918. 
It  was  there  provided  that,  when  the  movement  attained  sufficient  pro¬ 
portions  in  any  part  of  the  country,  a  district  conference  could  be  called 
of  all  Units  within  an  Ecclesiastical  Province  and  a  closer  organization 
effected.  The  first  to  organize  in  this  way  was  the  Cincinnati  Province, 
which  held  a  convention  at  Jasper  College,  Jasper  Ind.  on  July  8,  9, 
10,  1919. 

The  arrangements  for  this  conference  were  placed  by  the  Executive 
Board  into  the  hands  of  the  St.  Meinrad  Seminary  Unit  of  St.  Mein- 
rad’s  Seminary,  Ind.,  and  their  zeal,  backed  by  the  wholehearted  co- 


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operation  of  educational  institutions  thruout  the  Province,  made  of 
this  gathering  of  Catholic  students  an  important  event  in  the  history 
of  the  Crusade.  Seventeen  Universities,  Colleges  and  Academies,  with¬ 
in  the  Province  of  Cincinnati,  were  represented.  A  spirit  of  harmony, 
earnestness  and  enthusiasm  prevailed  among  its  student  delegates,  who, 
tho  of  various  callings,  were  united  in  their  devotion  to  the  cause  of 
the  Crusade:  *‘The  Sacred  Heart  for  the  World,  the  World  for  the 
Sacred  Heart.”  There  were  many  ideas,  many  plans,  many  proposals, 
yet  but  one  spirit. 

The  Convention,  after  hearing  many  inspiring  things  from  the  dis¬ 
cussions  and  the  papers  prepared  by  the  delegates,  drew  up  a  constitu¬ 
tion  and  elected  its  officers  for  the  district  organization.  This  con¬ 
stitution,  being  subject  to  and  in  conformity  with  the  national  Con¬ 
stitution  of  the  Crusade  which  was  drafted  at  Techny  one  year  before, 
was  laid  out  on  the  same  broad,  but  definite  lines,  to  furnish  a  nucleus 
and  a  modus  operand!  for  the  present  needs,  and  at  the  same  time,  by 
its  flexibility  to  anticipate  and  provide  for  the  future  developments  of 
the  Crusade  in  the  Province. 

It  was  decided,  for  the  sake  of  efficiency,  to  place  the  directing 
faculties  of  the  district  organization  into  the  hands  of  one  executive 
officer,  The  District  Manager,  who  was  granted  every  freedom,  under 
the  Constitution  and  the  guidance  of  the  National  Executive  Board, 
to  conduct  the  Crusade  in  the  Province. 

Not  the  least  of  the  good  work  done  at  Jasper  was  the  meeting  to¬ 
gether  of  Catholic  students,  their  interchange  of  ideas  on  vital  sub¬ 
jects  and  the  friendships  quickly  welded  among  them  by  a  common  de¬ 
votion  to  a  sacred  cause.  Young  men,  about  to  assume  the  respon¬ 
sible  duties  of  Catholic  clergymen  and  laymen  of  America,  met  their 
future  co-laborers  and  comrades  and  felt  encouraged,  strengthened  and 
enlightened  for  their  task. 

In  this  was  apparent  the  educational  feature  of  the  Catholic  Stu¬ 
dents’  Mission  Crusade.  If  we  want  the  Catholic  layman  of  the  future 
to  be  free  from  the  narrowness  and  provincialism  that  hampers,  so 
evidently,  his  brethren  of  today;  if  we  want  him  to  have  a  broad  and 
Catholic  outlook  upon  the  world  expressed  in  a  genuine  and  practical 
zeal  for  the  spread  of  the  faith  and  the  salvation  of  souls;  if,  in  short, 
we  want  him  to  be  of  that  spirit  which  will  make  his  cooperation  with 
his  fellow  Catholics  an  actuality  for  good — ^what  better  way  than  to 
develop  those  saving  qualities  now  while  education  is  a  possibility,  by 
giving  them  exercise  and  direction?  The  genius  of  Protestants  for 
organization  is  attributable  to  their  students’  organization,  the  Volun¬ 
teer  Movement  begun  over  30  years  ago.  To  accomplish  a  great  revolu¬ 
tion  requires  a  lengthy  leverage.  If  we  want  the  task  of  future  Cath¬ 
olic  leaders  to  be  something  more  than  the  heart-breaking  failures  of 
those  who  at  present  strive  to  organize  their  brethern  for  crying  needs, 
social  and  religious,  we  must  begin  the  molding  of  their  material  while 
it  is  fresh  and  malleable,  in  the  generous  and  impressionable  time  of 
youth.  The  drag  of  the  church  in  America  is  the  Catholic  priest  or 
layman  whose  concern  for  the  salvation  of  souls  never  reaches  beyond 
the  limits  of  his  own  fireside,  or,  at  most,  the  confines  of  his  parish. 
He  is  uninterested,  or  perhaps  puzzled,  when  called  upon  to  join  in  some 
movement  for  the  church  at  large.  He  may  add  one  unit  to  the  church 


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militant,  but  he  adds  little  or  nothing  to  the  positive  side  of  her  morals 
or  her  general  advancement. 

The  social  and  recreational  side  of  a  convention  were  not  neglected 
at  Jasper.  The  delegates  were  made  to  feel  at  home  by  their  genial 
host,  Father  Bernard  Heichelbech,  O.  S.  B.,  President  of  Jasper  College 
and  Father  John  Handly,  C.  S.  P.,  who  helped  to  stir  up  the  fires  of 
fraternal  love  and  fellowship  among  them.  An  entertainment  was  given 
in  the  assembly  hall  each  night,  and  there  also  was  afforded  a  free  ex¬ 
pression  of  missionary  ideas  and  experiences.  Rev.  Urban  Sonder- 
man  spiced  the  program  with  very  able  dramatic  selections,  and  a  variety 
of  excellent  music  was  rendered  by  the  Jasper  Orchestra.  To  attend 
one  such  convention  is  alone  sufficient  to  imbibe  the  missionary  spirit. 
The  Crusade  can  do  much  good  thru  such  assemblies. 

The  officers  of  the  convention  to  whom  is  due  the  credit  for  its 
orderly  and  harmonious  procedure  were:  Moderator,  Rev.  John  L.  Ott 
of  St.  Mary’s  College,  Dayton,  Ohio;  President,  Rev.  Frederick  A.  Rein¬ 
wand  of  St.  Meinrad’s  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad  Ind.;  Secretaries,  Rev. 
Edward  L.  Eisenman  and  Bernard  Loepker  of  St.  Meinrad’s  Seminary. 


General  Constitution. 


Adopted  at  the  Techny  Conference  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C.,  July 
28,  1918. 


Article  I. — Name. 


Section  I.  The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be  ^‘The 
Catholic  Students'  Mission  Crusade." 


Article  II. — Object. 

Section  I.  This  is  to  be  an  organization  of  Catholic  stu¬ 
dents  to  promote  the  interests  of  home  and  foreign  missions. 

Section  II.  The  ideal  to  which  this  movement  is  dedicated 
shall  be  expressed  by  the  words  'The  Sacred  Heart  for  the 
World,  the  World  for  the  Sacred  Heart." 

Article  III. — Organization. 

Section  I.  The  officers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a  Pres¬ 
ident,  an  Executive  Committee  of  three,  an  Advisory  Board 
and  a  Field  Secretary. 

The  President  and  Executive  Board  shall  be  elected  in 
general  convention  with  power  to  name  the  Advisory  Board 
and  Field  Secretary. 

Section  II.  The  constituent  units  shall  be  Catholic  student 
organizations  which  shall  report  quarterly  to  the  Executive 
Board  full  details  of  mission  activity,  including  a  statement 


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of  all  contributions  to  home  and  foreign  missions  made  by 
the  unit  or  its  members. 

Each  unit  shall  furnish  to  the  Executive  Board  an  annual 
per  capita  tax  of  twenty-five  cents,  which  shall  serve  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  the  general  government,  and  shall  entitle 
all  members  to  receive  the  official  organ  which  is  to  be  con¬ 
ducted  by  the  Field  Secretary. 

Section  III.  The  Executive  Board  shall  invite  the  units  to 
form  themselves  into  districts  for  the  purpose  of  holding 
district  meetings.  These  meetings  shall  consult  on  methods 
of  mission  work  for  mutual  encouragement.  Their  officials 
shall  promote  the  Crusade  in  the  District  throughout  the  year 
and  act  as  a  clearing  house  for  the  transaction  of  the  general 
business  of  the  District. 

Article  IV.— Conventions. 

Section  I.  General  Conventions,  whose  time  and  place  are 
to  be  determined  by  the  preceding  convention,  shall  consist 
of  delegates  from  each  unit  on  the  basis  of  one  vote  to  each 
unit.  This  vote  may  be  cast  by  the  delegates  or  by  proxy. 


Constitution  of  the  Cincinnati  District 

of 

The  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade. 


9, 


(Adopted  at  the  Jasper  Conference  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C.,  July 
1919.) 

Article  I. — Name. 


Section  I.  The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be  the 
Cincinnati  District  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade. 


Article  II.— Object. 

Section  I.  The  object  of  this  organization  shall  be  to 
elaborate  and  systematize  the  work  of  the  Crusade  in  the 
Ecclesiastical  Province  of  Cincinnati,  subject  to  and  in  con¬ 
formity  with  the  General  Constitution  and  Authority. 

Article  III.— Organization. 

Section  I.  This  district  shall  include  all  Units  comprised 
within  the  Ecclesiastical  Province  of  Cincinnati. 

Section  II.  The  officiers  of  this  organization  shall  be  a 
District  Manager  and  Unit  Secretaries. 


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Section  III.  The  District  Manager  shall  be  elected  in  Dis¬ 
trict  Convention  as  hereinafter  set  forth  in  Article  IV,  Sec¬ 
tion  2.  In  case  of  vacancy  of  the  office  of  District  Manager, 
the  National  Executive  Board  is  empowered  to  fill  the  vacancy 
after  consulting  the  individual  units  of  the  District. 

Section  IV.  Unit  Secretaries  shall  be  established  in  every 
affiliated  Unit  of  the  Catholic  Students'  Mission  Crusade  with¬ 
in  the  Ecclesiastical  Province  of  Cincinnati.  They  shall  be 
chosen  by  their  respective  units. 

Section  V.  Unit  Secretaries  shall  act  under  the  direction 
of  the  District  Manager  who  shall  be  the  supreme  executive 
of  the  District. 

Section  VI.  The  District  Manager  shall  consult  with  the 
Executive  Board  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade 
on  all  questions  of  National  Interest. 

Article  IV. — Conventions. 

Section  I.  Annual  District  Conventions,  consisting  of  dele¬ 
gates  from  each  Unit  of  the  Cincinnati  District,  are  to  be 
held  at  time  and  place  the  District  Manager,  after  consulting 
the  Unit  Secretaries,  may  deem  fit. 

Section  II.  Voting  shall  be  conducted  on  the  basis  of  one 
vote  to  each  Unit.  This  vote  may  be  cast  by  the  delegate  or 
by  proxy. 

Constitution  Signed  By 

Frank  S.  Beckman,  Chairman  Executive  Board. 

Frank  A.  Thill,  Secretary  Executive  Board. 

And  other  attending  delegates. 

Constitutional  Committee. 

Rev.  J.  Paschal  Hayden,  Mt.  St.  Josephs’  Convent,  Chair¬ 
man. 

Avitus  E.  Lyons,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary, 

William  C.  Havey,  Notre  Dame  University, 

Joseph  Keber,  The  Josephinum, 

John  B.  Hardig,  St.  Xavier’s  College, 

Resolutions. 

Adopted  by  the  Convention. 

— Resolved :  That  the  First  Provincial  Conference  of  the  Cin¬ 
cinnati  District  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade, 
recognizes  the  vital  need  for  the  promotion  of  Catholic  litera¬ 
ture  and  the  solution  of  the  many  menacing  social  problems, 


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in  order  that  the  object  of  the  Crusade — The  conquest  of 
the  World  for  Christ — be  fully  achieved ;  and  therefore  urges 
that  Catholic  energies  be  bent  toward  the  furtherance  of  the 
Cause  of  the  Catholic  Press,  and  the  remedying  of  social  evils ; 
and  hopes  to  include  these  activities  within  its  scope  in  the 
near  future,  in  accordance  with  the  resolution  passed  at  the 
Techny  Conference. 

2 —  -Resolved:  That  the  First  Provincial  Conference  of  the 
Cincinnati  District  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C.  recommend  to  the 
next  annual  conference,  that  no  Official  Organ  be  published, 
but  that  the  bulletin  method  be  continued  when  demanded 
for  report  of  Conference;  and  the  Annual  Report;  and  that 
the  Units  be  encouraged  to  maintain  departments  in  Catholic 
Periodicals. 

3—  Resolved:  That  the  First  Provincial  Conference  of  the 
Cincinnati  District  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C.  encourage  the  Units  to 
foster  a  special  devotion  to  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  that  this  be 
recommended  to  the  next  General  Conference  for  all  the  Cru¬ 
sade  Units. 

4—  Resolved :  That  the  Cincinnati  District  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C., 
assembled  at  Jasper,  Indiana,  July  ninth,  nineteen  hundred 
and  nineteen,  in  the  First  District  Conference  since  the  last 
National  Conference  at  Techny,  in  nineteen  hundred  and 
eighteen,  hereby  extends  heartfelt  thanks  to  Mr.  Charles 
Stocel  of  Cicero,  Illinois,  for  the  generosity  in  defraying  the 
publication  expenses  of  Bulletin  Number  Three,  containing 
the  report  of  the  Techny  Conference. 

Be  it  further  resolved:  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Cincin¬ 
nati  District  Conference  engross  this  resolution  on  the  records 
of  the  conference  and  forward  a  copy  to  Mr.  Stoffel. 

5—  Be  it  resolved :  That  the  members  of  the  Cincinnati  Dis¬ 
trict  of  the  C.  S.  M.  C.  tender  a  unanimous  and  heartfelt  vote 
of  gratitude  to  the  Benedictine  Fathers  of  Jasper  College, — 
and  in  particular  to  Father  Bernard,  whose  smile  of  welcome 
was  an  assurance  of  cordial  cooperation  with  the  activities  of 
the  Crusade,— -for  the  hospitality,  the  generosity,  the  magna¬ 
nimity  they  have  manifested  during  the  stay  of  the  delegates 
of  the  Convention  of  the  Cincinnati  District,  during  the  days, 
July  seventh  to  tenth,  nineteen  hundred  and  nineteen  at  their 
excellent  institution. 


List  of  Institutions  Represented  at  the  Conference. 

The  Present  Standing  of  the  Crusade  in  the  Province  of  Cincinnati. 

1.  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Mt.  Washington  Station,  Cin¬ 

cinnati,  0. 

2.  Precious  Blood  Seminary,  Carthagena,  0. 

3.  Notre  Dame  University,  Notre  Dame,  Ind. 

4.  Josephinum,  Columbus,  Ohio. 


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5.  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Indiana. 

6.  St.  John's  University,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

7.  St.  Xavier’s  College,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

8.  St.  Mary’s  College,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

9.  St.  Meinrad  College,  St.  Meinrad,  Indiana. 

10.  St.  Mary-of-the-Woods,  St.  Mary-of-the-Woods,  Indiana. 

11.  Mt.  St.  Joseph’s  Convent  and  Academy,  St.  Joseph,  Ky. 

12.  Loretto  Convent  and  Academy,  Loretto,  Ky. 

13.  St.  Walburga’s  Academy,  Covington,  Ky. 

14.  Villa  Madonna,  Covington,  Ky. 

15.  Academy  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  Ferdinand,  Ind. 

16.  St.  Charles’  High  School,  St.  Mary,  Ky. 

17.  Jasper  College,  Jasper,  Indiana. 

REGISTER  OF  THOSE  ATTENDING  THE  CONFERENCE. 

Mr.  Frank  Thill,  Secretary  of  the  Executive  Board. 

Rev.  Jos.  Kenkel,  C.  PP.  S.,  Carthagena,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Dewey  J.  Marks,  St.  John's  University,  Toledo,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Avitus  E.  Lyons,  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Wm.  J.  McKeown,  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Rev.  Frederick  A.  Reinwand,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 
Rev.  Herbert  Winterhalter,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 
Mr.  Forrest  Strange,  St.  Meinrad  College,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Mr.  Bernard  Loepker,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Very  Rev.  J.  A.  Burgmer,  S.  V.  D.,  St.  Mary's  Mission  House,  Techny, 
Ill. 

Rev.  Joseph  Molitor,  The  Josephinum,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Rev.  R.  J.  Markham,  D.  D.,  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Very  Rev.  Frank  S.  Beckman,  D.  D.,  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cincin¬ 
nati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Floyd  Keeler,  Apostolic  Mission  House,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Rev.  John  L.  Ott,  St.  Mary's  College,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Rev.  Newton  Thompson,  Maryknoll,  N.  Y. 

Rev.  Paul  A.  Deery,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Rev.  Charles  F.  Walsh,  St.  Mary-of-the-Woods,  Ind. 

Mr.  Wm.  C.  Havey,  Notre  Dame  University,  Notre  Dame,  Ind. 

Rev.  John  H.  Vagedes,  St.  Walburga  Convent,  Covington,  Ky. 

Rev.  Joseph  Reiner,  S.  J.,  St.  Xavier's  College,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Glenn  F.  Walker,  Loretto  Convent,  Loretto,  Ky. 

Mr.  Clement  Bastnagel,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Rev.  Benedict  Brown,  O.  S.  B.,  St.  Meinrad  Abbey,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 
Rev.  Leander  Schneider,  0.  S.  B.,  Jasper  College,  Jasper,  Ind. 

Rev.  Norbert  Spitzmesser,  O.  S.  B.,  Academy  of  Immaculate  Concep¬ 
tion,  Ferdinand,  Ind. 

Rev.  Edward  L.  Eisenman,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 
Mr.  William  A  Benz,  St.  Mary's  Mission  House,  Techny,  Ill. 

Mr.  Ralph,  E.  Thyken,  St.  Mary's  Mssion  House,  Techny,  Ill. 

Mr.  Edwin  P.  Seidel,  The  Josephinum,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Joseph  Keber,  The  Josephinum,  Columbus,  Ohio. 

Rev.  Urban  Sonderman,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Mr.  Joseph  O'Meara,  Jr.  St.  Xaver's  College,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


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Mr.  John  B.  Hardig,  St.  Xavier’s  College,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Mr.  Joseph  G.  Trible,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

Rev.  John  Handly,  C.  S.  P.,  St.  Mary’s  Church,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Rev.  J.  Paschal  Hayden,  Mt.  St.  Joseph’s  Convent,  St.  Joseph,  Ky. 

Rev.  Bernard  Heichelbech,  O.  S.  B.,  Jasper  College,  Jasper,  Ind. 

Papers  of  the  Convention. 

The  clearest  indicant  of  the  Conference  are  its  papers.  Utility 
compels  only  a  brief  report  of  these,  not  regarding  their  eminent  merit. 
St.  Meinrad  Seminary  Unit  had  ordered  the  work  of  the  Conference 
to  a  well  thought  out  program  and  at  each  session  some  vital  questions 
of  the  Crusade  were  brought  forward  by  a  specially  prepared  paper. 

The  Conference  was  begun  by  an  address  of  welcome  on  the  part 
of  its  genial  host.  Rev.  Bernard  Heichelbech,  0.  S.  B.,  President  of 
Jasper  College,  who  introduced  the  Chairman  of  the  Conference,  Rev. 
Frederick  Reinwand. 

Rev.  Reinwand’s  Address. 

Rev.  Reinwand,  as  President  of  St.  Meinrad  Seminary  Unit,  wel¬ 
comed  the  delegates  to  the  “First  Provincial  Conference  of  the  Cath¬ 
olic  Students’  Mission  Crusade.”  He  lauded  them  for  the  sacrifices 
they  had  made  to  attend  the  Conference  and  briefly  outlined  the  work 
they  were  assembled  to  accomplish.  He  expressed  the  generally  felt 
regret  that  arrangements  could  not  be  made  to  accommodate  female 
delegates.  He  said : 

“As  an  organization,  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade  is  as 
broad  in  its  consititution  and  extent  as  any  society  of  its  nature  can 
be;  its  primary  aim  is  the  educating  of  the  students  to  the  true  mis¬ 
sionary  spirit,  that  they  promote  the  interests  of  the  home  and  foreign 
missions;  this  latter  phrase  was  studiously  incorporated  in  the  constitu¬ 
tion  because,  to  the  Catholic  mind,  the  promotion  of  an  enterprise  is  not 
limited  to  financial  support.  To  the  students  who  are  assembled  to 
perfect  this  young  organization,  it  was  evident  that  the  first  need  of 
Catholic  missions  is  the  assistance  of  prayer;  and,  realizing  that  “un¬ 
less  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they  labor  in  vain  that  build  it,”  the  Con¬ 
vention  of  July,  1918  admits  to  full  and  unqualified  membership,  with¬ 
out  financial  obligations,  mission  societies  founded  among  students  of 
religious  orders  and  congregations.  This,  however,  does  not  exclude 
a  voluntary  contribution  from  such  for  the  maintenance  of  field  secre¬ 
taries,  organizers,  the  cost  of  producing  propaganda,  literature,  etc., 
and  the  expenses  incurred  by  the  executive  branch  of  the  Crusade. 

At  this  point  it  should  also  be  noted,  quoting  from  the  pamphlet, 
“God  Wills  It,”  that  home  missions,  as  well  as  foreign  missions  are 
included  in  the  scope  of  the  movement.  For,  besides  the  peculiar  appeal 
of  personal  interest  conveyed  to  many  minds  by  the  idea  of  home  mis¬ 
sions,  it  is  true  that  those  who  surround  us  more  closely  truly  deserve 
the  exercise  of  our  Christian  charity.  It  is  true  that  at  present  scarce¬ 
ly  fifty  per  cent  of  the  Indians. of  this  country  belong  to  the  Church; 
that  there  are  from  ten  to  twelve  million  negroes  within  the  confines 
of  this  country,  who  have  a  claim  to  the  attention  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  and  that,  according  to  the  Superior  of  one  of  the  most  success- 


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ful  missions  among  the  negroes:  “The  efforts  thus  far  made  by  the 
great  Catholic  Church  in  America  to  win  over  the  negro  race,  have 
been  surprisingly  out  of  proportion  with  the  magnitude  of  the  task. 
The  Protestants  have  literally  strewn  the  South  with  educational  in¬ 
stitutions  for  the  negro;  institutions  ranking  all  the  way  from  the 
kindergarten  to  the  university,  while  we  Catholics  have  not  yet  pro¬ 
vided  the  colored  people  with  one  college  or  school  of  higher  learning 
that  can  bear  the  name.”  It  is  also  true  that  approximately  fifty  mil¬ 
lions,  one  half  of  our  population,  profess  no  religion  at  all;  and  that, 
but  for  the  religious  revolt  of  the  sixteenth  centuiy,  twenty-five  million 
more  people,  now  professing  Protestantism,  would  be  in  the  army  of 
Christ,  the  Catholic  Church.  Out  of  the  remaining  twenty  millions 
who  have  the  truth,  there  is  certainly  sufficient  opportunity  for  the 
student  element  to  exercise  Christian  zeal. 

That  the  foreign  mission  field  is  equally  deseiwing  of  the  conscien¬ 
tious  consideration  and  support  of  every  Catholic  student,  in  fact  that 
it  is  the  foreign  field  which  especially  needs  our  assistance,  is  evident 
from  a  knowledge  of  existing  conditions.  To  any  one  that  realizes, 
that  during  the  past,  foreign  mission  work  was  carried  on  most  exten¬ 
sively  by  European  missionaries,  and  supported  by  European  money, 
it  must  be  etydent  that  our  World  War  has  weakened  considerably  the 
Catholic  missions.  There  are  800,000,000  pagans  in  foreign  countries, 
and  to  a  nation  which  during  the  past  year  has  vindicated  its  idealism 
and  spiritual  outlook,  such  an  appeal  cannot  remain  unanswered. 

We  the  Catholic  students  of  the  United  States  can  do  much  to  al¬ 
leviate  the  burdens  of  the  God-sent  representatives  in  the  home  and  in 
the  foreign  lands,  if  only  we  apply  a  part  of  our  gratuitously  given 
talents  and  abilities  for  such  a  noble  cause.  Most  of  us  were  bom  of 
Catholic  parents,  reared  in  Catholic  homes  and  educated  by  Catholic 
priests  and  sisters;  our  whole  lives  have  been  peacefully  and  happily 
spent  in  the  golden  sunshine  of  Catholic  society  and  surroundings. 
What  a  paradise  have  we  not  had,  having  been  thus  enveloped  in  such 
a  Christian  atmosphere  and  such  a  religious  influence!  How  grand 
the  ideals,  and  how  noble  the  examples  which  were  daily  placed  before 
us  by  the  leaders  and  guardians  of  our  youth,  whose  only  aim  was  to 
mold  a  good,  Christlike  and  charitable  character  in  us,  so  that  our 
passage  over  the  stage  of  life  may  not  be  a  haphazard  one,  or  without 
a  landmark  for  our  future  heritage.  Thus  inspired  vrith  the  spirit  of 
Christ  and  edified  by  the  apostolic  models  about  us,  can  we,  the  present 
generation  of  Catholic  students,  refuse  gratitude  to  a  Good  and  Benev¬ 
olent  God  tMio  has  given  it  to  us  to  be  what  we  are?  WiU  this  genera¬ 
tion  of  Catholic  students  shun  the  golden  path  of  charity  and  love  of 
fellowmen  to  follow  the  standard  of  selfishness  and  individual  monopoly 
which  at  this  very  moment  is  sucking  the  life-blood  from  men  and  lead¬ 
ing  them  to  the  arena  of  social  unrest  and  radical  materialism  and 
atheism?  Is  it  nothing  to  us.  Catholic  students,  that  we  have  received 
the  grace  of  Faith  and  are  here  given  the  opportunity  to  share  in  the 
work  of  carrying  its  inestimable  graces  to  those  less  fortunate? 

Dear  brother  crusaders,  we  are  out  to  win  a  noble  cause,  yes,  the 
noblest  of  all  causes,  inaugurated  by  Chrst  Himself  and  continued,-  as 
far  as  possible,  by  his  ordained  ministers  from  the  first  birthday  of 
the  Church,  namely:  the  Missions. 


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Address  of  the  National  Secretary. 

In  the  second  session  Mr.  Thill,  Secretary  of  the  Executive  Board 
authoratively  defined  the  purpose  and  scope  of  the  Conference.  He 
clearly  explained  the  general  constitution  in  its  bearing  on  the  district 
organization  then  in  contemplation.  He  suggested  in  this  address  the 
plan  of  choosing  a  District  Manager  and  of  having  Unit  Secretaries, 
which  was  afterwards  adopted.  He  admirably  expressed  the  meaning 
of  the  Crusade  in  a  few  words  as  follows: 

“The  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade  is  an  organization  which 
is  passing  through  the  first  year  of  its  existence.  Today  it  is  com¬ 
posed  of  thirty  nine  student  mission  societies  established  in  Catholic 
institutions  of  higher  learnng  throughout  fourteen  states  of  the  country. 
And  although  an  immense  amount  of  energy  has  been  expended  to  effect 
even  these  results,  yet,  we  feel  that  the  spirit  of  prayer  and  sacrifice 
which  have  characterized  Crusade  endeavor  throughout  the  past  twelve 
months  will  ultimately  insure  a  Crusade  triumph. 

“Our  organization  is  an  enterprise  which  has  for  its  goal  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  a  mission  society  in  every  institution  of  higher  learning  in  the 
United  States.  Its  object  is  not  to  gather  funds;  it  does  not  propose 
to  limit  in  any  way  the  activity  of  the  affiliated  mission  societies  which 
constitute  it,  but  wishes  to  become  merely  a  force,  an  inspiration,  to 
kindle  the  sympathy  of  Catholic  students  for  Catholic  mission  endeavor. 
And  for  this  reason  the  governing  body  of  the  Crusade  has  insisted 
from  the  very  beginning  that  prayer  be  made  the  cornerstone  of  this 
new  structure.  It  is  true  that  our  home  and  foreign  missionaries  need 
money,  but  the  financial  contributions  of  student  crusaders  to  the  mis¬ 
sion  agencies  of  their  choice  must  never  cease  to  be  the  student  mite. 
Our  strength  is  not  the  strength  of  numbers  nor  the  power  of  dollars, 
for:  ‘Unless  the  Lord  build  the  house  they  labor  in  vain  that  build  it.’ 

“We  must  inform  ourselves  on  the  true  condition  of  our  home  and 
foreign  missions;  we  must  keep  alive  the  light  of  mission  enthusiasm 
which  God  has  sent  into  our  land,  and  we  must  sacrifice  a  little  of  the 
little  we  have  that  the  edifice,  which  has  been  cemented  with  the  tears 
of  confessors  and  the  blood  of  martyrs,  may  grow  to  still  greater 
proportions.” 

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To  expedite  business,  three  papers  were  read  in  the  third  session.  The 
first  by  Mr.  Clement  Bastnagel  of  St.  Meinrad’s  Seminary,  treated 
with  the  subject  of  “The  Provincial  Organization;”  the  second  by  Mr. 
Glenn  Walker,  who  represented  Loretto  Academy,  Loretto,  Ky.,  con¬ 
sidered  the  question  of  a  “Field  Secretary,”  and  the  third  was  rendered 
by  Mr.  William  Havey  of  Notre  Dame  University  that  related  the  mis¬ 
sionary  activities  and  experiences  of  the  University. 


Mr.  BastnagePs  Paper. 

Mr.  Bastnagel  dealt  with  the  most  important  and  pertinent  question 
before  the  Conference.  He  presented  definite  and  concrete  plans  for 
a  Provincial  organization  in  a  paper  remarkable  for  its  logical  thorough- 


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ness  with  which  it  was  thought  out  and  the  understanding  it  revealed 
of  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  Crusade.  “Scarcely  a  year  ago/’ 
he  read,  “a  Mission  Movement  was  launched  which  has  astounded  every 
sincere  inquirer  with  the  magnitude  of  its  task.  The  small  seed  hope¬ 
fully  implanted  in  the  fruitful  soil  of  devoted  Catholic  students’  hearts 
took  root,  has  grown  and  enlarged  into  a  tender  seedling,  which,  al¬ 
though  still  delicate  in  its  growth,  gives  promise  of  continued  healthy 
enlargement.  The  Crusade  is  really  a  plant.  The  richest  field  for 
increase  is  furnished  by  a  spirit  of  earnest  prayer,  generous  devotion, 
and  self-forgetting  sacrifice  on  the  part  of  every  one,  and,  the  element 
indispensibly  necessary  for  it  to  breathe  in,  is  God’s  helping  grace  and 
protection  at  all  times. 

In  the  General  Constitution  the  object  of  the  Crusade  is  worded  thus: 
‘This  is  to  be  an  organization  of  Catholic  students  to  promote  the  in¬ 
terests  of  the  home  and  foreign  missions’,  and  in  the  pamphlet  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  Executive  Board  at  Cincinnati,  the  purpose  is  put  as 
‘the  presentation  to  our  Catholic  students  of  mission  facts  and  needs 
which  is  the  primary  work  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade,’ 
and  this  devout  hope  is  then  added  that  ‘by  organizing  our  students 
and  by  impressing  on  them  the  crying  needs  of  the  missions,  the 
sympathy  of  Catholic  students  will  be  awakened  and  their  support 
secured  for  Catholic  mission  enterprise.’ 

Yet  these  comprehensive  declarations  of  our  end  in  view,  admit  of 
a  variety,  or  at  least  of  a  divergency  of  means  towards  its  accomplish¬ 
ment.  These  means  can  be  grouped  under  three  general  heads :  spiritual, 
educational  and  m*aterial;  in  other  terms,  prayers,  propaganda  and 
pecuniary  aid.  Any  means  lawfully  employed  and  having  for  its  im¬ 
mediate  or  ultimate  end  the  furtherance  of  truth  or  the  combating  of 
error  falls  under  these  three  categories. 

Prayer,  above  all,  constant  prayer,  full  of  ardent  devotion  and  un¬ 
shakable  confidence,  is  the  primal  requisite  for  success.  “How  can  we 
expect  the  smallest  measure  of  success  in  this  superhuman  enterprise 
unless  we  begin  by  prayer?  That  students’  mission  society  whose  mem¬ 
bers  pray  most  and  best,  will,  assuredly,  be  the  most  successful  no 
matter  by  how  far  others  may  seem  to  surpass  it  in  material  results.” 

Another  quality  in  which  our  endeavors  must  excel  is  unselfishness 
‘Where  a  little  unselfishness  is  found,  a  little  will  be  accomplished, 
where  it  is  a  dominating  feature,  there  is  nothing  that  may  not  be 
accomplished.’  (Bulletin  1). 

A  knowledge  of  what  we  are  about  is  the  next  requisite.  The  find¬ 
ing  of  ways  and  means  to  insure  its  propagation  follows  as  a  necessary 
corollary.  Intelligent  service,  and  not  haphazard  and  perfunctory  in¬ 
difference  should  accompany  all  our  efforts. 

Lastly,  although  the  financial  aspect  is  not  so  important  as  propa¬ 
ganda  work,  I  must  make  mention  of  the  reality  that  pecuniary  con¬ 
tributions  aid  more,  in  a  majority  of  cases,  to  bring  about  the  acquisi¬ 
tion  of  a  spirit  of  willing  sacrifice,  than  long,  protracted  hours  of 
mental  labor  spent  in  behalf  of  Crusade  activities.  When  Crusade  work¬ 
ers  have  once  acquired  a  love  for  unstinted,  magnanimous,  self-forget¬ 
ting  sacrifice,  they  will  have  overcome  one  more  great  obstacle  in  the 
way  of  their  onward  march.” 


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The  scheme  of  organization  proposed  by  Mr.  Bastnagel  while  not 
wholly  adopted  at  the  Conference  is  of  much  suggestive  value  and  will 
no  doubt  have  considerable  bearing  on  the  future  development  of  Cru¬ 
sade  organization.  It  is  given  in  brief  extracts  from  his  paper.  “What 
shall  we  call  the  Crusading  Host  of  Catholic  students  within  the  Ec¬ 
clesiastical  Province  of  Cincinnati.  No  appellation  appeals  to  me  more 
vigorously  than:  ‘The  Cincinnati  Division  of  the  Catholic  Students^ 
Mission  Crusade,’  which  is  an  army  term  in  harmony  with  the  one, 
‘Unit,’  already  in  use.” 

“What  shall  be  the  scope  of  this  district  organization?  Its  scope 
cannot  be  more  extensive  than  its  jurisdiction,  and  its  jurisdiction  can 
extend  only  to  the  province  of  Cincinnati.” 

“The  legislation  of  the  Division  should  be  done  by  the  Division  Con¬ 
ference.  All  units  represented  at  this  Division  Conference  are  to  have 
a  voice  in  governing  their  district  organization.  This  Conference  shall 
elect  all  officers  for  the  Division  and,  at  each  assembly  before  adjourn¬ 
ment,  establish  the  Division  Headquarters  at  some  Unit  within  the 
Province.” 

“Who  and  how  many  shall  its  officers  be?  Modeled  after  the  general 
organization,  the  officers  of  the  Division  would  be  a  President,  an 
Executive  Committee  of  three,  an  Advisory  Board,  and  a  corps  of  Di¬ 
vision  representatives  in  proportion  of  three  for  each  diocese  of  the 
Province.  The  President  of  the  Division  shall  be  a  priest  belonging  to 
the  Ecclesiastical  Province  of  Cincinnati.  Similarly  as  the  Central 
Executive  Board  consists  of  three  members,  a  chairman,  secretary  and 
treasurer,  so  also  our  Division  Executive  Committee  should  consist  of 
three  members,  two  of  whom  shall  be  students  chosen  from  the  unit 
where  the  Division  Headquarters  are  established.  The  work  of  the 
Committee  shall  include  all  the  more  active  executive  and  general  work 
of  the  Division.  It  is  to  have  charge  of  the  Division  Headquarters, 
to  appoint  and  advise  the  Division  Representatives,  and  lastly  to  super¬ 
vise  the  making  and  the  collection  of  the  quarterly  reports  and  the  per 
capita  tax  of  the  Division.” 

“The  Presidents  of  Universities  and  the  Superiors  of  Convents,  whose 
members  have  charge  of  subsidiary  schools  shall  be  ipso  facto  members 
of  the  Advisory  Board.” 

“The  Division  Representatives  shall  be  priests  to  promote  and  further 
the  interests  of  the  Crusade  in  their  respective  dioceses.” 

“The  mission  work  of  the  Division,  as  to  kind  or  manner,  is  in  no 
wise  to  be  defined  or  restricted  by  either  the  Division  Conference  or 
the  Executive  Committee.  Each  unit  is  to  be  left  free,  entirely  free, 
to  pursue  whatever  way  it  deems  best.  Individual  initiative  is  ever 
the  most  salutary  incentive  to  missionary  zeal,  for,  it  is  better  adjusted 
to  guard  against  a  careless  and  perfunctory  compliance  with  missionary 
requirements.” 

“This  provision,  however,  we  must  make,  that  mission  work  in  no  way 
be  construed  to  interfere  with,  hamper,  retard,  or  prejudice  the  organi¬ 
zation  or  work  of  any  mission  society,  already  recognized  or  in  existence. 
Let  us  adhere  to  the  proposed  end  of  the  Crusade,  to  the  object  of  its 
tenets,  to  countenance  and  promote  all  approved  mission  societies. 
Heretofore,  the  zeal  and  enthusiasm  of  some  of  us  has  been  misdirected  j 
the  aim  and  purpose  set  for  us  has  thus  far  been  indiscreetly  miscon- 


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strued  by  a  few;  the  result  became  evident  in  their  activity,  for  they 
had  gone  beyond  the  bounds  of  their  constitution.  Therefore  the  Cru¬ 
sade’s  aim  was  subject  to  a  misinterpretation. 

“Mission  work  among  the  parochial  and  other  schools,  that  does  not 
come  directly  under  the  operation  of  the  Crusade,  shall  be  placed  under 
the  special  charge  and  care  of  Units  established  in  convents  or  mother- 
houses,  the  religious  of  which,  have  charge  of  these  schools.  Parochial 
schools  should  not  and  cannot  be  affiliated  with  the  Catholic  Students’ 
Mission  Crusade.  The  scope  of  our  movement  excludes  them.  But 
religious  men  and  w’omen  who  are  members  of  a  Crusade  unit  established 
at  their  respective  monasteries  and  convents,  assume  the  duty  of  en¬ 
couraging  and  fostering  among  these  schools  all  approved  mission 
societies  and  activities.  The  units  should  obtain  a  quarterly  report 
from  them  and  record  their  efforts  among  them  in  their  own  quarterly 
reports  to  the  Executive  Committee.” 

“Acting  upon  this  suggestion,  Crusade  work  will  not  retard  or  inter¬ 
fere  with  other  mission  societies  existing  in  parochial  schooln;  it  will 
rather  have  to  be  regarded  as  a  help  lent  to  their  cause.  And  this  is, 
after  all,  the  aim  of  the  Crusade,  to  aid  mission  enterprises  whenever, 
wherever,  and  in  whatever  way  it  can.  Any  work,  therefore,  having 
for  its  end  the  extension  or  the  defense  of  the  Catholic  Faith  is  con¬ 
sidered  as  mission  work  and  will  be  recorded  quarter-annually  and  sent 
to  the  Executive  Committee  for  the  inspiration  and  example  of  others.” 


The  Field  Secretary. 

Mr.  Glenn  Walker,  representng  Loretto  Convent  and  Academy,  Nerinx, 
Ky.,  read  an  excellent  paper  on  the  question  of  a  Field  Secretary. 
Although  the  office  finally  created  by  the  suborganization  culminated  in 
a  District  Manager  instead  of  a  field  secretary,  many  of  the  duties  and 
qualifications  demanded  by  the  speaker  for  a  field  secretary  are  appli¬ 
cable  to  the  district  manager. 

Mr.  Walker’s  plan  for  financing  the  Provincial  Organization: 

“The  method  of  financing  the  newly  constituted  organization,  that  ap¬ 
peals  to  me  as  the  most  feasible,  is  that  which  our  esteemed  chairman 
has  suggested  to  me;  namely,  a  part  of  the  per  capita  tax  of  .25cts. 
which  is  levied  on  the  students  of  institutions  of  higher  education  thru- 
out  the  province  of  Cincinnati.  According  to  the  Catholic  Directory 
of  1917  there  are  19,202  students  in  such  colleges.  Eliminating  3,000 
of  these,  the  remaining  16,000  would  net,  at  .25cts.  per  capita  tax, 
$4,000,  one  fourth  of  which  would  be  sufficient  for  the  provincial  organ¬ 
ization. 

Another  method  would  be  an  assessment  levied  against  each  institu¬ 
tion  according  to  the  number  of  its  students,  leaving  to  each  unit  its 
own  method  of  raising  this  assessment.  In  one  school  the  per  capita 
may  be  advisable,  in  another  entertainment  or  festivals,  etc.” 

Mr.  Havey  of  Notre  Dame. 

The  paper  read  by  Mr.  William  Havey  in  the  third  session  of  the 
conference  is  given  almost  completely  elsewhere  (page  21),  both  because 
it  is  a  characteristic  one  and  because  it  deals  with  matters  of  much 
practical  value  to  the  Units  in  their  present  and  future  work. 


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In  dealing  with  the  “Possibilities  of  the  Crusade”  the  Rev.  Norbert 
Spitzmesser,  O.  S.  B.,  who  represented  the  Academy  of  the  Immaculate 
Conception,  Ferdinand,  Ind.,  especially  urged  the  offering  of  prayers 
for  the  missions.  The  three  ways  in  which  the  Crusade  would  accom¬ 
plish  its  work,  he  said,  must  be  by  prayer,  education  and  self-sacrifice. 
This  paper  was  followed  by  a  short  talk  on  the  “Crusade  and  Parochial 
Schools”  by  the  representative  from  Mt.  St.  Joseph’s  Academy,  Ken¬ 
tucky,  the  Rev.  J.  Paschal  Hayden  whose  views  on  this  point  coincided 
with  those  of  Mr.  Bastnagel  as  given  above. 


The  Relation  of  the  Crusade  to  other  Mission 

Societies 

This  vital  question  was  handled  before  the  Conference  in  a  paper 
written  by  Frater  Wm.  A.  Ross,  S.  V.  D.,  of  Techny,  Ill.  The  following 
substantial  extract  clearly  shows  the  relation  of  the  Crusade  to  other 
Mission  Societies. 

“Many  of  the  grown-up  Mission  Organizations  regard  the  Catholic 
Students’  Mission  Crusade  with  approval  and  admiration;  others 
look  askance  at  a  new  arrival  in  their  field. 

The  relation  of  the  Crusade  to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of 
Faith  is  perhaps  the  most  important  from  a  practical  standpoint,  be¬ 
cause  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  Faith  is  the  largest  Society 
supporting  Foreign  Missions;  it  is  most  firmly  established  thruout  the 
Catholic  World,  and  its  work  has  received  the  official  approval  and  bless¬ 
ing  of  the  Church.  The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  Faith  was 
established  in  France  in  1822.  It  has  had  a  rapid  growth,  and  up  to 
1912  it  had  distributed  to  the  Missions  $80,349,653.00  During  the 
past  year,  the  Society  in  the  United  States  collected  more  than  a  million 
dollars,  thus  almost  doubling  the  return  of  1916. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Faith 
has  not  yet  succeeded  in  winning  the  students  of  our  country  to  the 
needs  of  the  missions.  In  individual  Colleges  and  Seminaries  branches 
of  the  Society  have  been  formed,  but  the  student  body  is  still  outside  the 
fold.  The  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Faith  leaders  are  fully 
aware  of  the  importance  of  getting  the  students  interested.  Mgr.  Dunn 
of  the  N.  Y.  Office  says:  “We  have  no  hope  for  the  future  except  in  the 
students,”  and  Dr.  McGlinchey,  the  zealous  director  in  the  Boston  Arch¬ 
diocese  has  repeatedly  emphasized  the  vast  importance  of  winning  the 
students  to  the  Mission  Cause. 

Now  the  C.  S.  M.  C.  has  come  to  fill  this  need!  It  is  not  a  collecting 
agency.  Its  first  aim  is  to  educate  the  students  to  the  mission  ideal, 
to  prayer  and  self-sacrifice,  and  then  to  mission  giving.  As  a  mission 
organization,  the  C.  S.  M.  C.  differs  from  the  S.  P.  F., —  (1st)  because 
it  is  an  organization  of  the  Catholic  students  only  (Const.  Art.  2,  Sec. 
2) ;  (2nd)  it  is  a  Crusade  that  appeals  to  the  ideals  and  enthusiasm  of 
youth,  to  the  love  of  spreading  the  Kingdom  of  the  Sacred  Heart;  (3rd) 
it  aims  to  educate  the  student  to  mission  study,  to  a  love  for  the  mission 
work  and  then  to  that  spirit  that  will  carry  him  out  into  the  busy  world, 
a  leader  who  wins  others  to  the  mission  cause;  (4th)  prayer,  self-sacri- 


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fice,  correspondence  with  missionaries,  study  of  the  mission  problem, 
and  personal  services — all  play  as  great  a  part  as  contribution. 

Now  how  can  the  Crusade  best  cooperate  with  the  Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Faith?  The  following  few  suggestions  may  be  use¬ 
ful  to  show  the  possibilities  of  working  out  a  definite  program  of  inter¬ 
communication.  (1st)  The  members  of  the  Crusade  should  be  urged  to 
join  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Faith;  Units  as  a  whole 
could  become  branch  societies, — tho  this  must  be  left  to  the  free  choice 
of  the  unit.  (2nd)  The  Central  Bureau  could  secure  a  report  from 
the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Faith  on  the  most  needy  mis¬ 
sion  districts,  destitute  of  schools,  orphanages  etc.,  with  the-  view  of 
furnishing  the  units  with  proteges.  (3rd)  A  report  of  all  contributions 
to  the  Foreign  Missions  might  be  sent  to  the  S.  P.  F.,  because  it  is  the 
aim  of  the  Society  to  equally  distribute  all  its  funds.  (4th)  The  Crusade 
could  be  in  touch  with  the  S.  P.  F.  for  the  arrival  of  Missionaries, 
for  the  latest  mission  publications,  or  lectures  by  the  Missionaries. 
(5th)  The  Members  of  the  Crusade  in  their  work  in  the  schools  and 
parishes  could  urge  the  establishment  of  branch  societies  of  the  S.  P.  F. 

A  Society  similar  to  that  of  the  Propagation  of  the  Faith  is  the 
Association  of  the  Holy  Childhood,  whose  membership  consists  of  Cath¬ 
olic  children  and  whose  purpose  is  to  educate  and  save  pagan  children, 
by  securing  baptism  for  those  in  danger  of  death,  buying  those  for 
sale,  bringing  them  up  in  orphanages,  and  founding  new  homes  for  them. 
Every  child  may  be  a  member  from  the  time  of  its  baptism  by  the 
monthly  payment  of  one  cent.  The  C.  S.  M.  C.  will  cooperate  with 
the  Association  by  its  work  in  parochial  schools.  The  members  will 
urge  all  Catholic  children  to  join  the  Holy  Childhood  for  the  pagan 
babies;  in  a  word,  the  means  of  cooperation  are  as  varied  as  those  sug¬ 
gested  for  the  S.  P.  F. 

From  what  has  been  said  above,  it  follows  that  the  relation  of  the 
Crusade  to  organization  like  the  S.  P.  F.  and  the  Holy  Childhood  As¬ 
sociation  must  be  one  of  complete  harmony  and  close  cooperation.  Such 
a  relation  will  bring  great  benefits  for  the  Crusade  and  for  the  organi¬ 
zations  in  question.  This  conception  of  the  work  can  be  proved  by 
example  of  the  Protestant  Students  Volunteer  Movement.  As  the 
Protestant  Boards  have  benefitted  immensely  by  the  Movement,  so  all 
Catholic  Mission  collecting  societies  will  benefit  by  Crusade  activities. 

The  relation  of  the  Crusade  to  the  Church  Extension  Society  may 
be  solved  along  the  lines  followed  above. 

In  the  Crusade,  there  will  doubtless  be  many  units  which,  owing  to 
their  situation,  or  by  reason  of  their  future  work  of  the  members,  will 
be  more  interested  in  the  Home  Missions.  These  units  could  correspond 
with  the  Extension  Society,  subscribe  to  its  publications,  enroll  as 
members,  and  send  their  free  contributions  to  the  Home  Mission  through 
the  Extension  Society.  As  in  the  case  of  the  S.  P.  F.,  the  Central 
Bureau,  or  provincial  head  could  secure  a  report  of  the  most  needy 
Mission  fields,  promising  districts  for  the  erection  of  chapels  etc.  Thus 
the  relation  of  the  Crusade  to  the  Extension  Society  will  be  one  of 
harmony  and  cooperation. 

An  important  branch  of  the  Home  Missions  is  the  work  among  the 
Negros  and  Indians.  Here  there  is  a  wonderful  field  of  activity  open 
to  the  Crusaders  for  the  education  of  the  Amercian  people  to  the  needs 


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of  these  missions  and  the  responsibility  of  the  Catholic  body  for  the  suc¬ 
cessful  solving  of  the  problem. 

But  does  not  the  Crusade  interfere  with  some  of  the  other  missionary 
collecting  societies,  and  as  a  new  arrival  in  the  field  should  it  not  be 
deppendent  on,  or  at  least  subservient  to  the  larger  organizations?  It 
is  not  at  all  the  desire  of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade  to 
interfere  with  the  other  missionary  societies.  The  aim  of  the  Crusade 
is  to  aid  all  the  interests  of  the  Church  by  co-ordinating  all  student 
mission  activities  for  better  and  more  effective  action.  And  to  attain 
its  God-given  destiny  the  Crusade  must  remain  independent  of  all  exist¬ 
ing  mission  collecting  societies.  Many  of  the  members  of  such  socie¬ 
ties  are,  as  a  rule,  content  with  paying  their  fees,  and  they  expect  a 
heartfelt  “thank  you”  from  the  Church  when  they  have  given  a  nickel 
a  month  or  less  for  the  missions.  The  organization  of  the  Catholic 
students  is  distinctively  a  Crusade — an  educational  movement  world¬ 
wide  in  its  application  and  results,  winning  the  world  to  the  Sacred 
Heart. 

No  other  mission  organization  has  succeeded  in  arousing  the  student 
body, — and  yet  it  is  evident  that  the  hope  of  the  future  lies  in  the 
students.  Therefore,  since  only  such  a  movement  as  the  Crusade  can 
succeed  with  the  students,  and  since  the  students  must  be  won  to  save 
the  mission  cause,  it  follows  that  any  interference  on  the  part  of  other 
mission  societies  will  be  to  their  own  detriment.  Whereas  the  Crusade 
left  to  work  out  its  own  plans  unhampered,  independent  and  unrestricted 
will  renew  the  “face  of  the  earth.”  In  its  vast  field  of  activity,  it  will 
cooperate  with,  and  assist  all  the  mission  societies,  directly  or  indirectly, 
provided  it  remains  subservient  to  none.  Like  the  trained  army  of  St. 
Ignatius’  dreams,  it  will  strengthen  the  line  where  it  is  weak;  it  will 
fill  in  the  breach  made  by  the  enemy,  it  will  bring  new  life  and  courage 
into  everything  Catholic  and  missionary,  carrying  all  before  it  in  the 
stirring  cry  “God  Wills  It!” 

As  the  Crusade  is  made  up  of  student  societies  as  units,  the  relation 
of  these  units  to  the  other  mission  organizations  may  be  worth  dis¬ 
cussing.  Is  it  not  better  for  the  unit  to  distribute  all  its  specific  con¬ 
tributions  to  the  missions  through  one  mission  organization?  Should 
the  unit  correspond  with  the  missionaries? 

I  cannot  see  the  utility  of  sending  all  funds  for  missionary  districts 
or  mission  schools  in  the  field  afar  for  distribution  to  only  one  col¬ 
lecting  agency  or  society.  It  is  claimed  that  such  a  measure  has  many 
advantages  for  the  unit,  protecting  it,  thereby,  against  fraud  and  im¬ 
posture,  by  masquerading  missionaries  or  unworthy  subjects  in  the 
field.  This  is  quite  true — but  the  danger  of  fraud  can  be  removed  by 
concerted  action  with  the  Central  Bureau  or  the  Provincial  Head,  which 
would  take  the  trouble  of  looking  into  such  matters  and  keep  the  units 
accurately  informed.  Another  advantage  claimed  is  that  it  facilitates 
relations  with  such  an  agency  or  society  enabling  it  to  aid  many  mis¬ 
sionaries  in  greater  need,  for  knowing  who  receives  the  funds  of  the 
Crusade,  the  Society  could  help  others  less  fortunate.  All  this  is  true. 
But  as  a  universal  practice  in  the  Crusade,  this  measure  has  a  decided 
disadvantage,  because  it  leaves  little  or  no  room  for  correspondence 
with  missionaries  at  the  front.  If  a  personal  letter  from  the  mission¬ 
aries  could  be  guarantied  when  the  funds  were  distributed  through 


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one  collecting  agency,  all  would  be  well;  but  this  seems  to  remain  un¬ 
certain. 

Now  why  is  correspondence  with  missionaries  so  important?  Because 
it  accounts  for  much  of  the  success  in  mission  work.  The  more  of  that 
personal  touch  or  contact  with  the  men  in  the  field  afar,  the  greater 
the  zeal  and  enthusiasm  of  those  at  home.  The  following  extracts  are 
from  a  letter  that  is  a  fair  sample  of  hundreds  of  letters  received  by 
mission  societies.  The  writer  is  a  teacher  in  one  of  the  schools  of 
Michigan.  She  began  the  work  by  studying  the  location  of  a  catechist 
to  be  adopted.  The  letter  contains  .  . .  .“Possibly  you  do  not  fully  realize 
that  if  people  know  just  where  their  money  is  to  be  used  they  will  give 
twice  as  much.  Their  interest  will  continue  and  develop.  The  contribu¬ 
tors  work  for  a  certain  definite  object,  which  stimulates  their  zeal  as 
nothing  else  can.”  So  it  is  evident  that  correspondence  with  mission¬ 
aries  is  most  conducive  to  arousing  the  zeal  of  those  at  home.  The 
personal  letter  from  the  missionary  has  all  the  advantages  of  a  lecture 
on  the  field  afar,  or  even  a  personal  talk  by  a  missionary.  Therefore 
the  units  should  correspond  with  missionaries  and  ask  a  personal  reply 
— and  this  plan  seems  to  us  to  be  a  vital  factor  for  arousing  missionary 
interest,  especially  when  our  Crusade  will  have  its  own  official  organ 
in  which  many  of  such  letters  may  be  published. 


What  they  are  doing  at  Notre  Dame. 

Mission  Work  of  the  Unit. 

Just  as  there  is  no  love  more  passionate  than  the  love  of  God,  so  there 
is  no  ambition  more  consuming  than  the  ambition  to  save  souls.  This 
ambition  flames  forth  most  intensely  at  certain  times,  most  effectively 
in  great  crises  when  mens’  souls  are  tried  and  the  barriers  that  kept 
their  vision  from  enduring  things  have  been  burned  away  by  the  same 
fires  that  purged  their  hearts  of  the  dross  of  worldliness. 

Thus  it  will  be  to  the  lasting  credit  of  the  far-visioned,  brave-hearted 
young  men  who  have  started  the  Students’  Mission  Crusade,  that  they 
organized  it  at  a  time  when  such  a  movement  was  most  opportune,  at 
a  time  not  only  when  the  missions  at  home  and  in  distant  places  needed 
help  sorely,  but  also  when  the  Catholic  American  youth  was  most  re¬ 
sponsive  to  appeals  to  inate  generosity  and  characteristic  enthusiasm. 

The  donning  of  the  Khaki  made  the  American  soldier-student  a  cham¬ 
pion  of  the  loftiest  principles  for  which  any  country  ever  fought. 

The  magnaminity,  the  love  of  justice  and  truth  and  virtue,  inspired 
by  the  critical  conflict  of  1917-1918,  have  sunk  deeply  into  the  young 
men  of  the  nation  and  must  affect  their  future  conduct. 

Now  that  the  beginning  has  been  so  auspicious,  it  is  the  duty  of 
those  charged  with  this  Mission  Crusade  to  discover  plans  for  the 
realization  of  its  aims  and  to  secure  means  whereby  its  works  may  be 
more  effectually  promoted.  There  is  no  doubt  about  its  final  success, 
if  we  work  earnestly  and  together,  for  supporting  it  is  that  same 
Providence  which  inspired  it.  The  purpose  is  divine,  “The  World  for 
the  Sacred  Heart;  the  Sacred  Heart  for  the  World,”  as  it  has  been 
felicitously  expressed :  the  means  are  an  organized  student  body,  litera- 


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ture,  propaganda  of  various  kinds,  along  with  many  of  those  human 
instrumentalities  by  which  the  Lord  accomplishes  His  works  among  men. 

According  it  is  for  us  to  use  the  means  at  our  disposal  in  such  a 
way  as  to  draw  down  the  greater  favor  of  Him  in  whose  name  and  for 
whose  sake  the  movement  has  been  started  and  to  effect  a  swift  and 
sure  extension  of  the  work  entrusted  to  us.  Some  time  ago  I  was  re¬ 
quested  by  the  Rev.  John  O’Hara,  prefect  of  religion  and  Dean  of  the 
Foreig:n  Commerce  Department  of  the  University  of  Notre  Dame  to 
prepare  a  paper  for  this  conference  on  “Mission  Work  of  the  Unit.” 
The  subject  assigned  me  was  accompanied  with  an  outline  thoughtfully 
furnished  by  the  president  of  the  St.  Meinrad’s  Unit.  I  decided,  how¬ 
ever,  not  to  use  the  outline,  not  because  it  was  unsatisfactory,  but  be¬ 
cause  after  consultation  with  several  religious  experienced  in  missionary 
matters  and  after  obtaining  Rev.  Reinwand’s  gracious  permission,  I 
deemed  it  more  practicable  to  give  an  account  of  the  mission  activities 
engaged  in  by  Notre  Dame,  particularly  inasmuch  as  such  a  treatment 
would  cover  in  essential  all  the  main  ideas  set  forth  in  the  outline,  and 
at  the  same  time,  consider  them  concretely.  This  paper,  therefore,  will 
deal  with  the  methods  of  an  organization  closely  resembling  the  college 
unit  planned  by  the  Crusade  and,  I  think,  be  more  helpful  than  a 
theoretical  or  general  discussion.  It  will  not  be  strictly  divided  into 
the  educational,  spiritual,  and  financial  order  printed  on  the  program 
but  will,  in  its  several  sections,  touch  adequately  upon  each.  I  do  not 
aim  to  advance  original  schemes  for  the  progress  of  Crusade  work, 
but  only  to  tell  you  clearly  and  concisely  just  what  schemes  for  the 
furtherance  of  mission  work  Notre  Dame  has  tried  with  success. 

The  religious  community  which  conducts  the  University  of  Notre 
Dame  does  not  limit  its  activity  to  higher  education,  but  is  also,  engaged 
in  journalistic,  in  parish,  and  in  mission  work — ^both  home  and  foreign. 
As  is  natural,  the  members  of  Holy  Cross  Congregation  link  together 
the  three  branches  of  the  work  of  the  congregation  so  that  one  branch 
may  share  in  the  benefits  and  fruits  of  the  other,  with  the  result  that 
there  is,  what  I  might  call  a  threefold  reciprocal  operation  which  con¬ 
duces  to  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  them  all.  To  illustrate: 
the  college  aids  the  missions  by  monetary  contributions  and  by  train¬ 
ing  men  for  labor  in  the  mission  fields  at  home  and  abroad;  the  mis¬ 
sion  in  turn  by  extending  its  spiritual  conquest  through  the  material 
assistance  donated  by  the  college  and  parish  draws  down  the  blessing 
of  Heaven,  so  that  the  congregation  becomes  more  prosperous  and  the 
resources  proportionately  greater,  especially  in  vocations.  The  adage 
“nothing  draws  success  like  success”  obtains  in  the  spiritual  just  as  in 
the  commercial  or  the  political  or  the  literary  world.  The  parish,  like 
the  college,  gives  both  spiritual  and  material  help  to  the  missions,  as 
I  will  explain  later,  and  to  the  college  gives  boys  who,  after  a  university 
training,  will  be  intelligently  and  practically  interested  in  the  great 
work  of  evangelization.  That  in  brief,  is  the  foundation  of  the  Notre 
Dame  scheme  for  carrying  out,  in  its  limited  way,  the  commission  of 
Christ. 

Let  us  now  take  up  in  order  the  parish,  the  high  school,  and  the 
colleges  as  they  conspire  in  the  furtherance  of  truth,  and  see  what  can 
be  done  for  the  missions  by  each.  In  South  Bend,  Fort  Wayne,  Indian¬ 
apolis,  Portland,  Oregon;  Austin,  Texas;  and  Washington,  D.  C.,  where 


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Holy  Cross  men  are  stationed,  either  in  parishes  or  schools,  and  in 
several  other  cities,  notably  Ogden,  Utah,  where  the  Sisters  of  Holy 
Cross  have  academies  for  young  ladies,  many  practical  means  are  em¬ 
ployed  for  the  aid  of  the  Bengal  Mission.  The  Bengal  Mission  is  one 
of  the  thirteen  Catholic  missions  of  India  and  extends  from  the  Bay 
of  Bengal  to  the  foothills  of  the  Himalayas.  It  has  been  under  the 
spiritual  care  of  the  Congregation  of  Holy  Cross  since  1853.  It  is  a 
little  larger  in  square  miles  than  the  State  of  Indiana;  its  population 
is  six  times  as  great  as  that  of  the  State  of  Illinois — 20,000,000  people, 
only  12,000  of  whom  are  Catholics.  It  has  been  found  that  people  in 
parishes  and  the  children  of  the  elementary  grades  respond  cordially 
and  generously  to  the  appeals  of  this  mission,  once  its  existence  and 
needs  are  made  known  to  them  by  pastors  and  teachers.  Card  parties, 
dances,  novelty  and  histrionic  entertainments,  lawn  fetes,  illustrated 
lectures,  and  various  similar  amusements  are  some  of  the  usual  means 
employed  for  the  raising  of  funds  for  the  Bengal  diocese.  Mission  clubs 
have  been  formed  in  all  the  cities  named  before  and,  through  their 
promoters,  keep  in  close  touch  with  the  Director  of  Bengal  affairs  in 
the  United  States.  In  St.  Joseph’s  parish  in  South  Bend,  ten  young 
ladies  recently  established  a  sewing  society  for  the  purpose  of  provid¬ 
ing  altar  linens  for  the  missionary  priests  in  India.  Money  for  the 
purchase  of  materials  is  raised  by  bi-monthly  dues  and  by  the  sale  of 
papers  and  magazines.  Their  efforts  are  not,  however,  confined  to  those 
two  sources  of  revenue.  The  girls  have  given  several  musical  recitals 
and  conducted  two  or  three  entertainments  which  have  been  largely 
successful  from  a  financial  viewpoint.  It  is  not  difficult  to  interest 
a  parish  group  like  this  in  mission  work  if  interesting  methods  for 
arousing  and  sustaining  enthusiasm  be  employed.  It  must  be  kept  in 
mind  however,  that  much  of  the  success  of  a  thing  of  this  kind  is  at¬ 
tributable  to  the  pastor  and  his  co-operation  and  counsel  must  be 
secured.  If  a  pastor  is  willing  to  encourage  cordially  and  practically 
a  mission  organidation  in  his  parish  in  a  surprisingly  short  while  other 
associations  will  take  up  work  for  the  help  of  the  missions  with  real 
eagerness. 

The  high  school,  in  which,  next  to  the  college,  the  mission  spirit  ought 
to  thrive,  has  been  found  by  Notre  Dame  to  be  a  rich  source  of  mission 
succor.  The  Brothers  in  the  boys’  school,  and  the  Sisters  in  the  acad¬ 
emies,  have  succeeded  in  enlisting  the  support  of  their  pupils  in  the 
dissemination  of  literature  and  oral  information  about  Bengal  and 
have  also,  by  inculcating  the  love  of  souls  and  a  slight  realization  of 
the  value  of  a  soul,  made  of  many  boys  and  girls  earnest,  enegetic 
workers  in  their  own  vicinities  in  behalf  of  the  foreign  mission.  Raf¬ 
fles,  donations  of  small  sums  saved  by  making  little  personal  sacrifices, 
athletic  contests,  entertainments,  and  the  like,  are  the  favorite  and 
frequent  modes  of  raising  funds  among  high  school  students  under 
the  tutelage  of  Holy  Cross  religious.  In  Indianapolis  last  January  the 
raffle  of  a  watch  conducted  by  the  boys  of  the  Cathedral  high  school 
netted  $100,00  for  the  Bengal  mission.  Chances  at  $.25  were  sold  and 
according  to  report  were  disposed  of  without  the  least  difficulty.  In 
this,  as  in  other  efforts  by  the  boys  of  this  school,  the  priest  of  the 
Cathedral  parish,  and  particularly  the  Bishop,  Rt.  Rev.  Joseph  Char- 
trand,  gave  active  encouragement  to  the  experiment.  In  March  each 


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boy  of  the  school  pledged  himself  to  make  during  Lent  a  weekly  con¬ 
tribution  equivallent  to  the  sum  ordinarily  spent  outside  the  holy  season 
for  candy,  theatres,  tobacco,  and  the  like.  The  result  of  this  personal 
sacrifice  effort  was  one  hundred  dollars.  The  Sisters  of  Providence 
in  Indianapolis  were  enlisted  as  co-workers  by  the  Cathedral  Club  to 
give  aid  to  the  missionaries  and  to  secure  members  for  the  Bengal 
Foreign  Mission  Society,  an  organization  established  for  the  express 
purpose  of  promoting  the  interests  of  the  Bengal  Mission.  This  ex¬ 
ample  shows  that  once  a  mission  club  has  appeared  in  a  city  its  spirit 
rapidly  extends  itself  to  other  schools  with  immeasurable  benefit  to  the 
men  spending  their  lives  in  a  lonely  land  that  the  “praises  of  God  may 
be  on  the  lips  of  a  new  people.” 

In  Columbia  college,  Portland  Oregon,  which  is  chiefly  a  preparatory 
institution,  an  amateur  boxing  match  and  entertainment  was  held  last 
February,  and  the  proceeds  from  the  admission  charge  contributed  to 
the  Bengal  fund.  Thus  even  the  strenuous  pastime  of  Dares  can  be 
utilized  for  the  promotion  of  Catholic  charity  work  for  missions.  At 
the  Central  high  school  in  Fort  Wayne,  the  biggest  athletic  event  of 
the  winter  season  is  the  “Mission  Basketball  Game,”  a  contest  between 
the  most  skilful  team  in  that  part  of  the  state  and  the  “Central  quintet” 
for  the  championship  of  the  locality,  all  the  proceeds  of  which  go  to 
the  Bishop  of  Dacca.  Tickets  are  sold  weeks  ahead  by  all  the  students 
of  the  school,  so  that  by  the  night  of  the  game  a  considerable  sum  has 
been  gathered  and  a  crowd  of  spectators  large  enough  to  licit  not  a 
little  attention  from  the  newspapers  has  been  brought  together.  In- 
1918  one  hundred  dollars  was  realized  in  this  way  and  this  year 
$112.00. 

The  spirit  actuating  all  the  mission  work  in  the  high  schools  and 
parishes  was  thus  succinctly  expressed  in  an  editorial  which  appeared 
this  year  in  a  February  issue  of  the  Notre  Dame  “Scholastic,”  the 
weekly  magazine  edited  by  the  students  of  the  university:  “A  few  cents 
in  the  hands  of  a  foreign  missioner  may  mean  the  salvation  of  a  pagan 
soul.”  The  lessons  learned  from  these  illustration  is  that  when  Catho¬ 
lic  people  are  made  to  realize  in  a  degree  the  preciousness  of  a  soul, 
all  the  obstacles  to  popular  interest  disappear  of  themselves. 

For  the  reason  that  the  Students’  Mission  Crusade  deals  directly 
with  the  university,  college,  and  seminary,  it  is  proper  that  considerable 
importance  and  principal  discussion  should  be  given  to  this  phase  of 
the  subject.  First  of  all  the  personal  influence  element  ought  to  be 
treated,  for  obviously,  it  is  most  significant.  At  Notre  Dame,  it  is 
customary  to  have,  during  the  year,  many  men  of  prominence,  both  in 
secular  and  ecclesiastical  activity,  address  the  students.  Often  it  hap¬ 
pens  that  a  man  who  devoted  himself  to  missionary  labor  comes  to 
the  college  and  is  invited  to  lecture  on  some  subject  within  his  field. 
Many  people  think  that  the  college  student  is  so  intent  upon  either 
athletics  or  studies  that  he  has  neither  the  time  nor  the  inclination  to 
attend  to  foreign  mission  work.  But  I  know,  from  actual  experience, 
that  this  much  misunderstood  person  is  not  insular  and  is  not  selfish. 
Frequently  he  occupies  himself  with  salutary  things  outside  the  curric¬ 
ulum,  the  athletic  schedule,  and  social  affairs.  There  are  other  things 
and  nobler  things  in  undergraduate  life  than  Greek  classas,  and  foot¬ 
ball  games  and  dances  and  the  occasional  raising  of  hilarity.  The 


Top  Ro'W,  Left  to  Right. 

1  Forrest  Strange,  St.  Meinrad  College,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

2  Rev.  Herbert  Winterhalter,  Villa  Madonna  Academy,  Covington,  Kentucky. 

3  William  .J.  MeKeown,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  0. 

4  •John  E.  Hardig,  St.  Xavier  College,  Cincinnati,  0. 

.5  Avitus  E.  Lyons,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  0. 

6  Rev.  Paul  Deery,  Indinapolis,  Indiana. 

7  Joseph  O’Meara,  Jr.,  St.  Xavier  College,  Cincinnati,  O. 

8  Clement  Bastnagel,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

9  Rev.  Newton  Thompson,  Maryknoll,  N.  Y. 

10  Rev.  E.  Eisenman,  Recording  Secretary,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad.  Ind. 

11  Rev.  John  Handly,  C.  S.  P.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

12  Rev.  John  Vagedes,  St.  Walburga  Academy,  Covington,  Ky. 

13  Bernard  Loepker,  Recording  Secretary,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

14  Edwin  P.  Seidel,  .Josephinum,  Columbus,  O. 

1-5  Rev.  Joseph  Reiner,  S.  J.,  St.  Xavier  College,  Cincinnati,  0. 

16  William  A.  Benz,  Techny,  Illinois. 

Middle  Row,  Left  to  Right. 

1  Rev.  Joseph  Kenkel,  C.  PP.  S.,  Carthagena,  0. 

2  Rev.  R.  J.  Markham,  D.  D.,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  O. 

3  Rev.  John  L.  Ott,  St.  Mary’s  College,  Dayton,  0. 

4  Rev.  Norbert  Spitzmesser,  O.  S.  B.,  Immaculate  Conception  Academy,  Ferdinand, 

Indiana. 

5  Rev.  Charles  Walsh,  St.  Marys-of-the-Woods,  Indiana. 

6  Rev.  J.  Paschal  Hayden,  District  Manager  Elect,  Mt.  St.  Joseph’s  Convent  and 

Academy,  Mt.  St.  Josephs,  Ky. 

7  Mr.  Floyd  Keeler,  Field  Secretary,  Apostolic  Mission  House,  Washington,  D.  C. 

8  Rev.  Bernard  Heichelbech,  0.  S.  B.,  Rector  Jasper  College,  Jasper,  Ind. 

9  Rev.  Frank  S.  Beckman,  D.  D.,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminaiy,  Cincinnati,  0. 

10  Very  Rev.  J.  A.  Burgmer,  S.  V.  D.,  Provincial,  Techny,  Illinois. 

11  Rev.  Joseph  Molitor,  Josephinum,  Columbus,  0. 

Bottom  Roiv,  Left  to  Right. 

1  Glenn  F.  Walker,  Loretto  Convent  and  Academy,  Loretto,  Ky. 

2  Rev.  Urban  Sonderman,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

3  Joseph  Gilbert  Trible,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St.  Meinrad,  Ind. 

4  Rev.  Frederic  Reinwand,  Chairman  of  Conference,  St.  Meinrad  Seminary,  St. 

Meinrad,  Ind. 

5  William  C.  Havey,  Notre  Dame  University,  Notre  Dame,  Ind. 

6  Frank  A.  Thill,  Secretary  of  Executive  Board,  Mt.  St.  Mary’s  Seminary,  Cincin¬ 

nati,  0. 

7  Joseph  Keber,  Josephinum,  Columbus,  O. 

8  Ralph  E.  Thyken,  Techny,  Illinois. 

9  Dewey  J.  Marks,  St.  John’s  University,  Toledo,  0. 


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normal  student  knows  it  and  he  shapes  his  corlduct  conformably  to  his 
knowledge.  Again  to  the  average  college  man,  who  after  all  is  just  as 
much  a  hero-worshipper  as  when  he  was  going  through  the  Penrod 
period,  there  is  in  the  priest  who  has  abandoned  home  and  brethren  and 
country  to  entomb  himself  in  a  far-olF,  perilous  land,  an  attraction  and 
a  glamour  far  more  magnetic  than  that  which  irradiates  from  the 
athletic  marvel  or  the  intellectual  prodigy.  To  those  of  you  who  know 
the  psychology  of  the  college  student,  the  reason  is  plain.  It  is  the 
same  psychological  principle  which  was  at  work  during  the  war-times. 
The  government  sent  out  men  who  had  seen  service  at  the  front  to 
give  speeches  throughout  the  country  in  order  to  stir  up  greater  in¬ 
terest,  pecuniary  and  patriotic,  in  the  war  and  incidentally  to  augment 
entlistments.  What  does  this  experience  suggest  if  not  that  enthusiasm 
for  the  crusade  must  be  fostered  in  our  Catholic  houses  of  education. 
That  is,  men  who  have  done  actual  mission  work,  men  who  have  seen 
service  in  the  far-flung  outposts  of  Christianity,  men  who  are  aglow 
with  the  love  of  souls  and  filled  with  the  knowledge  of  how  to  save 
them,  must  be  brought  into  personal  contact  with  our  American  stu¬ 
dents  that  by  their  speech  and  example  they  may  impart  to  the  latter 
the  zeal  and  devotion  which  animates  themselves. 

“Quasi  lumen  de  suo  lumine  accendat,  facit: 

Nihilominus  ipsi  lucet,  quum  illi  accenderit.” 

Like  the  traveller  whose  torch  does  not  cease  to  burn  when  he  gives 
a  light  to  that  of  another,  so  the  missionary  will  be  able  to  furnish 
illumination  and  ardor  to  others  without  diminishing  his  own. 

There  are  in  vogue  varous  ways  of  promoting  material  interest  in 
the  foreign  missions  among  Notre  Dame  students,  one  of  the  most 
feasible  of  which  has  been  the  placing  of  mite  boxes  in  all  the  study  and 
residence  halls  of  the  university.  Above  the  boxes  is  a  neat  placard 
requesting  contributions  from  spending  money  for  the  support  of  the 
orphans  of  the  Bengal  diocese.  I  am  happy  to  say  that  this  simple 
plea  is  answered  nobly  by  the  boys  of  Notre  Dame;  for  when  the  boxes 
are  opened  the  contributions  are  found  to  be  gratifyingly  generous. 
The  men  who  labor  for  the  conversion  of  the  Bengalese  are  old  Notre 
Dame  men,  priests  and  brothers  who  once  recited  in  the  class  rooms, 
played  on  the  same  fields  and  loved  the  same  teachers  and  traditions 
as  the  students  of  today.  In  the  Notre  Dame  student  the  spirit  of 
fraternity  does  not  die  when  college  days  are  over,  and  so  the  gallant 
gentlemen  who  spend  themselves  on  the  other  side  of  the  world  in  a 
land  of  loneliness  and  fever  and  sometimes  death  are  remembered  in 
a  most  consolingly  helpful  way  by  their  younger  college  brothers. 

The  Holy  Cross  Mission  Band  with  headquarters  at  Notre  Dame, 
although  engaged  entirely  in  American  mission  work,  helps  considerably 
to  propagate  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  Bengal.  By  their  for¬ 
tunate  nearness  to  the  students  of  the  university,  the  members  of  the 
Band  are  able  to  wield  over  youthful  hearts  and  minds  an  unobtrusive 
influence  and  shape  in  youthful  souls  great  dreams  that  will  later  come 
true  in  some  glorious  achievement  for  God  and  His  creatures. 

There  is  at  Notre  Dame  one  organized  method  for  furthering  the 
foreign  mission  activities  of  the  Congregation,  formerly  called  the 
Holy  Cross  Missionary  Society,  but  now  known  as  the  Bengal  Foreign 
Mission.  Society.  Since  its  organization  it  has  been,  steadily  growing 


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in  influence  until  now  it  supervises  practically  all  the  actual  work  of 
assisting  the  Bengal  mission.  The  object  of  the  society  is  stated  as 
“an  organization  established  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  by  prayer  and 
alms  the  foreign  missions  in  the  diocese  of  Dacca,  East  Bengal,  India.’' 
At  vrst  the  qualifications  for  membership  were  strict  and  rather  prohi¬ 
bitive.  For  example,  only  one  who  had  reached  the  age  of  eighteen 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Congregation  or  postulant  for  the  religious 
state  in  Holy  Cross  Congregation  was  eligible  for  membership.  Recent¬ 
ly  the  conditions  for  belonging  to  the  society  have  been  so  modified, 
that  anyone  who  says  daily  one  Hail  Mary  with  an  invocation  for  the 
conversion  of  the  Bengalese,  contributes  five  cents  a  month  to  aid  the 
missions,  and  reads  the  “Bengal  Apostolate”  a  monthly  magazine  which 
will,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Seminary  members  of  the  Society,  be 
published  beginning  next  September,  is  entitled  to  the  seven  specific 
benefits  of  membership,  ranging  from  a  pleneary  indulgence  on  the 
day  of  enrollment  to  a  daily  remembrance  in  the  prayers  of  the  Con¬ 
gregation.  The  director-general  of  the  Society,  Rev.  Michael  Mathis, 
C.  S.  C.,  is  stationed  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  from  there  advises  the 
officers  and  branches  in  all  their  operations.  Promoters  are  appointed 
in  every  high  school,  and  college  under  the  managements  of  the  Holy 
Cross  Congregation  and  to  them  is  delegated  the  responsibility  of  ex¬ 
tending  and  directing  the  work  for  the  Bengal  Mission  in  their  respective 
localities.  For  several  years  a  leaflet  has  been  printed  each  month — 
this  leaflet  will  be  supplanted  by  the  “Bengalese,”  the  oflicial  periodical 
of  the  Society  beginning  next  Fall — in  which  letters  from  the  mission¬ 
aries  have  been  published,  information  about  the  mission  in  Dacca  has 
been  given,  and  the  work  of  the  different  allied  organizations  has  been 
discussed.  It  has  been  found  that  a  publication,  no  matter  how  small, 
is  exceedingly  valuable  for  instructing  persons  who  are  willing  and 
able  to  help  the  missions,  and  that  it  amply  repays  the  time  and  labor 
involved  in  its  making.  Accordingly  it  would,  as  it  seems  from  ex¬ 
perience,  be  for  the  advantage  of  the  Students’  Mission  Crusade  to 
have  a  monthly,  or  even  a  quarterly,  official  organ  to  acquaint  others 
with  the  aims  of  the  Crusade  and  keep  up  interest  among  members. 
This  logically  leads  to  the  question  of  publicity.  I  had  an  occasion  to 
note  the  efficacy  of  advertising  an  organized  collegiate  movement  when 
the  question  of  prohibition  was  up  for  debate  between  Notre  Dame 
and  Cincinnati  university.  I  wanted  to  get  information  on  the  affirma¬ 
tive  side  of  the  question  and  sent  to  the  Intercollegiate  Prohibition  As¬ 
sociation,  the  headquarters  of  which  was  in  Chicago,  a  request  for  mat¬ 
ter  that  might  be  useful  to  one  in  such  a  contest.  Enough  literature 
to  fill  a  trunk  was  forwarded  and  while  going  through  some  of  it  I 
discovered  that  the  association  was  strongly  organized  in  every  secular 
university  of  consequence  in  the  country,  was  a  most  powerful  opponent 
of  the  liquor  industry,  and  had  students  delivering  speeches,  writing 
articles,  and  engaged  in  any  propaganda  that  could  help  the  cause  of 
the  fight  against  liquor.  Some  students  with  convictions  and  courage 
had  persuaded  themselves  that  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  wine, 
whiskey,  and  beer  as  bad,  and  soon  a  national  organization  for  the 
abolition  of  the  liquor  traffic  was  formed.  The  result  you  well  know. 
The  liquor  business  will  shortly  be  but  a  shadowy  memory,  and  its 
death  is  principally  attributable  to  the  hatred  aroused  for  it  and  the 


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fight  waged  against  it  by  leaders  of  thought  who  demonstrated  that 
they  could  become  leaders  of  action  as  well,  who  showed  conclusively 
that  mind  is  might  and  that  once  an  organization  of  undergraduates 
takes  up  publicity  for  the  realization  of  their  aims  a  potent  influence 
is  exerted  on  the  rest  of  society. 

The  various  schemes  for  raising  revenues  towards  the  subsidy  of 
the  Bengal  Mission  are  oftentimes  as  ingenious  as  they  are  practical 
and  productive.  I  have  observed  in  reading  the  Bulletins  published  at 
Techny  and  the  papers  printed  in  the  report  of  last  year’s  convention, 
that  several  of  these  schemes  have  already  been  suggested  as  a  practi¬ 
cable  way  of  reaching  the  financial  objectives  of  the  Students’  Crusade. 
The  active  members  of  the  Bengal  Society  are  in  many  instances  leaders 
in  scholastic  life,  in  the  classroom,  on  the  athletic  field,  on  the  forensic 
floor,  in  every  phase  of  college  life.  This  leadership  with  them,  however, 
is  not  conducive  to  conceit,  or  priggishness,  or  what  is  worse,  intellectual 
snobbery,  for  there  is  no  work,  no  matter  how  lowly,  that  they  will 
not,  in  their  beautiful  humility,  engage  for  the  service  of  the  missions. 
Just  as  affiliation  with  the  Students’  Mission  Crusade  honors  any  uni¬ 
versity  or  college  in  the  country,  no  matter  how  large  or  ancient  or 
famous,  so  labor  for  the  cause  of  pagan  souls  is  regarded  by  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  this  society  as  a  genuine  distinction.  Paper  is  gathered  and 
baled  by  the  boys  themselves,  old  clothes,  shoes,  rubber,  tinfoil  are  ac¬ 
cumulated  in  a  convenient  place  for  the  purpose  of  giving  the  proceeds 
to  the  support  of  the  Bengal  diocese;  some  boys  with  all  the  zeal  of 
professional  philatelists  collect  cancelled  stamps;  two  young  men  par¬ 
ticularly,  one  of  whom  is  the  university  organist  and  the  other  Grand 
Knight  of  the  Notre  Dame  Council  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  sweep 
out  an  assembly-chamber  and  turn  over  the  remuneration  for  this 
janitor  work  to  the  keeper  of  the  funds  for  the  Bishop  of  Dacca. 
Obviously  youths  with  that  spirit,  who  can  find  time  to  lend  their  whole¬ 
hearted  services  to  a  cause  which  they  are  under  no  obligation  to  ally 
themselves  with,  a  spirit  emanating  from  an  unaffected,  unpretentious, 
practical  interest  in  the  missions  are  an  inspiration  to  those  who  are 
seeking  men  and  means  to  further  this  Crusade  movement.  Frequent¬ 
ly  the  prize  money  of  oratorical  and  debating  contests  is  donated  by 
the  winners  to  the  mite  boxes  distributed  about  the  university.  An 
appeal  for  the  missions  in  the  form  of  an  editorial  in  the  college  maga¬ 
zine  often  results  in  a  gift  from  this  source.  I  am  familiar  with  the 
case  of  one  boy  who  won  the  gold  medal  for  the  best  historical  essay 
on  the  Northwest  Territory  and  subsequently  received  one  hundred  dol¬ 
lars  for  the  manuscript  from  a  publishing  concern.  He  gave  half  the  re¬ 
ward  to  the  Bengal  fund. 

I  have  emphasized  somewhat  the  disposition  of  the  students  of  Notre 
Dame  in  regard  to  mission  effort  because  I  have  been  among  them  for 
several  years  and  know  them  more  intimately  than  the  boys  of  other 
schools.  But  I  am  sure  that  they  are  types  of  the  studentse  of  every 
Catholic  college  in  the  country,  that  the  Catholic  student  is  the  same 
the  world  over,  his  innate  and  frequent  beneficence  varying  only  in 
degree  and  not  in  kind.  The  energies  to  be  enlisted  by  the  Students’ 
Mission  Crusade  into  a  powerful  force  for  Catholicism  throughout  the 
world  are  the  best  possible  for  the  purpose  and  if  enlisted  aright  the 
success  of  this  movement  will  be  as  sure  as  the  sunset  and  enduring  as 


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truth.  A  prompt  seizing  of  our  opportunities  will  mean  the  winning 
over  of  thousands  of  Catholic  students  of  the  country  and  a  convei^sion 
of  their  energy  into  a  service  supervised  by  the  Crusade  that  will  make 
this  movement  one  of  the  biggest  things  that  ever  happened  for  the 
weal  of  the  Church  in  America. 

■  In  regard  to  the  spiritual  side  of  the  work  of  the  unit  not  much 
needs  be  said.  I  shall  not  treat  at  lenth  then  what  Notre  Dame  does 
in  the  way  of  prayer  for  the  missions.  For  to  even  a  nominal  Cath¬ 
olic  it  is  patent  that  without  prayer  nothing  could  be  accomplished 
in  mission  work.  Prayer  is  te  basis  of  our  effort  as  it  is  of  everything 
else  that  looks  toward  the  spiritual  betterment  of  mankind  and  the 
greater  glory  of  God.  It  is  sufficient  to  say  that  every  member  of  the 
Holy  Cross  Congregation  has  at  heart  the  evangelization  of  India,  fully 
aware  that  in  proportion  as  he  labors  and  prays  for  the  foreign  mis¬ 
sion,  the  Holy  Ghost  will  bless  and  further  his  individual  labors  and 
the  labors  of  his  brethren.  It  is  common  knowledge  that  multiplied 
vocations  and  prosperity  most  surely  follow  upon  a  religious  order’s 
active  interest  in  aiding  the  missions  and  fostering  the  missionary 
spirit.  Last  winter  Bishop  Le  Grande  of  the  Dacca  diocese  wrote  a 
clear  statement  of  conditions  in  his  territory,  declaring  that  there  is 
no  limit  to  what  can  be  done  there  if  the  means  are  at  hand.  The 
Superior-General  of  the  Congregation  published  the  communication  to 
his  subjects  in  the  form  of  a  circular  letter,  with  the  exhortation  that 
its  contents  be  remembered  by  the  religious  of  every  house  in  the 
province  during  the  daily  mass  and  meditation.  The  Bengal  Foreign 
Mission  Society  makes  it  a  constitutional  provision  for  its  members  to 
receive  Holy  Communion  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  month  and  on 
the  days  of  meetings  for  the  intention  of  the  missions. 

I  have  tried  to  show  that  by  a  missionary  unit  in  a  college,  work  for 
the  support  of  the  missions  can  be  successfully  carried  on  in  parishes, 
high  schools,  and  academies;-— -work  of  an  educational,  financial,  and 
spiritual  nature  most  beneficial  to  the  unit  itself.  If  it  is  enterprising 
enough,  such  an  organization  could  easily  group  under  it  a  number 
of  subsidiary  agencies  and  by  alliance  with  a  national  organization  like 
the  S.  M.  C.  make  the  whole  work  for  missions  much  more  extensive 
and  effective.  I  have  shown  the  various  ways  in  which  a  college  unit 
could  function  by  sketching  the  operations  of  an  organization  which  has 
all  the  qualifications  except  the  name  and  which  has  been  at  work  for 
more  than  ten  years.  And  I  feel  confident  that  the  success  it  has  en¬ 
joyed  will  offer  an  incentive  to  other  institutions  for  establishing  units 
of  much  the  same  kind  and  their  success  will  be  even  larger  with  the 
lessons  that  experience  alone  can  adequately  teach. 

These  observations  upon  the  mission  work  with  relation  to  the  college 
unit  suggest  the  existence  of  a  factor  of  great  significance  to  all 
of  us;  a  factor  which  really  is  what  the  success  of  the  Crusade  will 
be  based  upon.  It  may  have  been  indicated  before,  but  it  is  worth  while 
making  most  apparent  in  conclusion.  Stated  in  a  sentence  it  is  the 
natural  disposition  of  the  American  Catholic  student  for  things  in¬ 
trinsically  noble  and  heroic,  and  the  providential  compatibility  of  the 
Students’  Mission  Crusade  with  this  disposition.  Let  us  keep  in  mind 
that  this  Crusade  brings  into  our  modern  ^era  the  opportunity  which 
made  the  strong-souled  knights  of  the  Middle  Ages,  that  it  is  in  fine, 


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what  the  Catholic  student  has  always  wahted,  what  he  has  long  awaited,; 
to  gratify  his  natural  craving  for]  ithings  of  the  spirit.  You  are  well 
aware  that  the_  Catholic  student,  whether  he  be  in  the  university  or 
in  the  high  school,  hungers  to  hear  of  deeds  of  valor  and  heroism  and;' 
loves  to  listen  to  tales  of  valiant  men  who  gave  themselves  gladly  to 
the  golry  of  God  and  the  salvation  of  His  children.  And  deep  down  in 
his  heart  he  yearns  to  take  some  part  in  those  deeds  and  in  some  way 
to  help  to  make  new  stories  of  high-minded,  stout-hearted  Christian 
knights.  And  what  is  the  STUDENTS'  MISSION  CRUSADE  but  a 
re-birth  of  the  spirit  of  Christian  chivalry?  Show  me  a  youth  whose, 
fancy  is  not  quickened,  whose  heart  is  not  thrilled,  whose  soul  is  not 
awed  by  the  story  of  those  militant  missioners,  Richard  the  Lion-Hearted 
and  Don  John  of  Austria;  those  deathless  heroes,  Xayier  and  Damien; 
those  intrepid  couriers  of  truth,  Marquette  and  La  Salle,  and  I  will 
say  that  he  is  neither  a  youth  nor  a  Catholic,  but  a  thin-blooded,  weak- 
spirited  creature  whose  virility  and  imagination  are  dead.  But  in  our 
ranks  that  variety  is,  thank  God,  very  scarce. 

We  have  but  to  make  a  strong  appeal  to  the  boys  of  our  Catholic 
schools  and  colleges  in  order  to  enlist  their  complete  and  cordial  co¬ 
operation.  Let  US  urge  then  the  establishment  of  a  unit  of  the  STU¬ 
DENTS'  MISSION  CRUSADE  in  every  Catholic  college  in  the  United 
States  with  full  confidence  that  our  appeal  will  be  heeded  and  that 
great  things  will  inevitably  ensue.  No  work  failed  yet  that  had  God 
and  His  saints  supporting  it  and  was  carried  on  by  the  undaunted  spirit 
of  young  manhood.  We  are  sure  of  God's  favor  and  the  blessing  and 
approbation  of  his  ministers.  Let  us  then  push  forward  bravely  and, 
hopefully  in  the  firm  faith  that  our  venture  will  succeed  and  the  golden 
dreams  of  its  beginners  come  true.  All  at  Notre  Dame  would  heartily 
participate  in  this  enterprise  undertaken  under  the  direction  of  the 
STUDENTS'  MISSION  CRUSADE  and  would  regard  it  as  a  high 
honor  to  be  in  any  way  responsible  for  its  success. 


Conclusion,  and  Instructions  for  the  Unit 

This  concludes  the  first  Bulletin  of  the  Cincinnati  District 
of  the  Catholic  Students’  Mission  Crusade. — Tardiness  is  not 
its  only  fault,  ,  yet  we  hope  that  it  will,  at  least  in  some  mea¬ 
sure,  serve  the  purpose  of  its  issue. 

We  should  have  liked  to  publish  here  some  of  the  excellent 
papers  read  and  speeches  made  extra  sessionem  at  the  Jasper 
Convention,  especially  the  talk  of  Mr.  Dewey  J.  Marks  of 
St.  John’s  University,  Toledo,  0.  on  the  “Penny  Collection” 
and  of  Mr.  Hardig  of  St.  Xavier’s,  Cincinnati,  on  the  “Big 
Brother’s  Society,”,  but  we  shall  save  these  for  our  next  Bul¬ 
letin. 

Let  us  see  what  progress  we  can  make  before  that  time. 
The  relation  and  manner  of  cooperation  between  the  Units 
and  District  Manager  shall  be  simply  that  of  neutral  help  and 
encouragment. 

A  free  expression  of  views,  a  generous  interchange  of  ideas 
and  experiences  in  missionary  work  should  always  pass  among 


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them.  While  Units  are  entirely  independent  as  to  their  mis¬ 
sion  work,  they  should  not  be  selfish  or  exclusive,  or  hide  their 
light  under  a  bushel,  but  should  let  the  other  Units  know  what 
they  are  doing  for  the  cause  and  should  thus  promote  it  by 
their  good  example. 

We  give  a  few  brief  instructions  for  the  operation  of  the 
Provincial  organization. 

1.  For  the  Scholastic  Year  the  Reports  of  the  Units  shall 
be  made  on  or  before  the  first  of  February  and  the  fifteenth 
of  May  respectively.  These  reports  shall  be  sent  to  the  Dis¬ 
trict  Manager,  who  will,  in  due  time,  furnish  blanks  to  the 
Units  to  facilitate  their  reports. 

2.  The  Per  Capita  tax  shall  be  sent  to  the  District  Man¬ 
ager;  likewise  shall  new  Units  apply  to  him  for  affiliation. 

— Instructions  for  the  Units. — 

The  Units  of  the  Cincinnati  District  are  no  doubt  anxious 
to  know  specifically  what  their  relations  shall  be  with  the 
District  Organizations  and  how  they  can  cooperate  with  the 
District  Manager.  These  questions  are  briefly  answered  here 
so  far  as  it  is  possible  to  do  so  at  the  present  development  of 
the  Crusade. 

The  purpose  of  the  District  Manager's  Office,  is  to  bring 
the  Crusade  organization  closer  to  the  Units  and  thereby  in¬ 
crease  its  efficiency.  Its  other  object  is  to  relay  and  facilitate 
the  work  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

The  relations  between  the  District  Manager  and  the  Units, 
therefore,  shall  be  one  of  mutual  encouragement  and  services. 
The  Unit,  or  the  Unit  Secretaries,  should  not  hesitate  to 
write  to  the  District  Manager  whenever  they  desire  to  in¬ 
quire  about,  suggest  or  promote  anything  for  the  good  of  the 
cause. 

For  the  rest:  This  scholastic  year,  the  report  of  November, 
15th  will  be  omitted,  but  all  Unit  activities  from  September 
to  February  will  be  included  in  the  February  report. 

— Suggestions  for  Crusade  Activity _ 

The  Units  are  exhorted  not  to  forget  that  their  chief  work 
in  behalf  of  God's  Kingdom  must  be  prayer  for  the  missions. 
Let  prayers  be  said  for  this  purpose  in  common ;  let  novenas 
be  made  and  Holy  Masses  be  read  for  the  propagation  of  the 
Faith.  Another  good  practise  is  to  observe  the  Church  Unity 
Octave  and  other  enterprises  of  prayer  in  behalf  of  the 
Church. 

As  to  educational  work,  the  field  is  a  vast  one.  Self  educa¬ 
tion  should  be  the  prime  consideration.  Mission  programs, 
therefore,  in  which  the  heroic  lives  and  grand  accomplish¬ 
ments  of  Catholic  missionaries  are  reviewed  and  in  which 
present-day  mission  works  and  needs  are  investigated,  are 
most  useful. 


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An  important  activity  in  behalf  of  the  missions  is  the  con¬ 
ducting  of  Crusade  departments  in  magazines  and  other  Cath¬ 
olic  publications.  This  is  already  being  done  by  several  Units ; 
it  is  a  most  effectual  work.  The  District  Manager  wishes  to 
urge,  especially,  this  method  of  promoting  the  Crusade. 

Another  promising  line  of  endeavor,  and  to  the  present 
unattended,  would  be  the  forming  of  clipping  and  pamphlet 
libraries  in  college  units.  These  clipping  libraries  could  serve 
to  accumulate  and  have  in  readiness  reading  matter  on  Cath¬ 
olic  questions  for  the  use  of  litereary  societies  in  parochial 
schools,  or  for  those  who  have  need  of  pertinent  and  current 
literature  on  religious  subjects.  This  work  would  be  parallel 
to  the  '‘School  Extension  Work,”  carried  on  by  secular  educa¬ 
tional  institutions.  It  would  serve  to  bring  the  Catholic  people 
close  to  their  Catholic  College  for  the  greater  welfare  of  both. 

These  are  but  a  few  suggestions.  In  the  next  Bulletin,  the 
report  of  the  Units  of  the  District  will,  no  doubt,  reveal  many 
good  and  practical  ways  of  helping  the  missions.  In  the 
mean  time  let  us  all  work.  The  Catholic  Students  of  America 
are  on  trial.  Do  they  realize  the  opportunity  of  the  hour? 
Are  they  alive  to  the  needs  of  their  fellow  men,  are  they 
zealous  for  the  honor  and  glory  of  God?  Let  us  answer  these 
questions  the  next  few  months  by  what  we  do  for  the  mis¬ 
sions  in  teaching,  in  prayer,  in  almsgiving ;  let  our  answer  be 
charity  and  self-sacrifice,  that  the  ideal  we  have  set  before 
us  may  never  be  lost : — 'The  Sacred  Heart  for  the  World,  the 
World  for  the  Sacred  Heart.” 


ABBEY  PRESS,  ST.  MEINRAD,  IND. 


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